Contracting for Google’s Marketing Technology department. Full-stack web app development on three internal projects, predominantly front-end. Writing and sizing user stories; designing UI and architecture of features; developing, deploying, and testing code. Leading design and development of new features from start to finish. Interfacing with clients as well as coworkers. Member of company culture and team building committee. Mentoring other employees.

Full-stack development of web and mobile apps for homeownership education and support, specializing in back-end microservices with APIs. Wrote and sized user stories; designed UI and back-end architecture of features; developed, deployed, and tested code. Collaborated with business units across organization. Product management of user-facing email communications. Interviewed and hired for technology positions. Mentored and trained other employees. Led strategic direction of Engineering team towards company-wide yearly objectives. Secretary of anti-racism committee.

Planned and executed sleep studies with human participants. Conducted EEG, EOG, and EMG recordings. Published in two papers for one study on learning and memory (see Publications below.)

Served doughnuts and drinks.

Dissected and performed electrophysiological recordings of mouse and monkey retinas and brains. Trained other interns on dissection and recording techniques.

Trained brain mapping software (Mojo 2.0) by correcting software-produced maps of brain sections. Compared Mojo 2.0 with other brain mapping softwares (Mojo, FIJI). Wrote tutorial for future interns using Mojo 2.0.

Working with a wide variety of artists (musicians, comedians, multimedia visual artists, and more) in intimate, donation-driven space for arts and community. Communicating with volunteers and event curator to schedule volunteers for events. Fundraising and handling finances, stocking inventory. Finding creative solutions to artists' and audience members' needs from show to show. Hosted one event of my own so far: a clothes mending workshop, where people brought their clothes for me to mend and/or teach them how to mend.

Helping elementary school kids catch up to grade-level reading. Beyond the purview of my tutoring duties, I have also created over 40 pages of worksheets to fill in gaps in the official curriculum.

Providing free meals for folks in the Tenderloin District.

Denis D, Shapiro AC, Poskanzer C, Bursal V, Charon L, Morgan A, Stickgold R. The roles of item exposure and visualization success in the consolidation of memories across wake and sleep. Learn Mem 27. doi: 10.1101/lm.051383.120 http://m.learnmem.cshlp.org/content/27/11/451.full

Denis D, Mylonas D, Poskanzer C, Bursal V, Payne JD, Stickgold R. 2020. Sleep spindles facilitate selective memory consolidation. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2020.04.03.022434 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.03.022434v2

Member of Honors Program. Graduated cum laude. Studied Behavioral Neuroscience for two years before switching to Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology. Dabbled in Linguistics.

Led team of 10 engineers and designers to plan, design, and create software for external client. Interviewed and selected team and client; scoped project; guided team to create functioning mobile app and back-end server for customer loyalty platform for small restaurants, replete with integrations with third-party APIs and email-sending service.

Taught Boston public elementary school kids STEM concepts through play. Developed open-source curriculum through research. Designed and developed website. Organized and led meetings and workshops, including ones with other Northeastern clubs focusing on diversity in technology.

Mentored incoming freshmen and transfer students in Khoury College. Continued mentoring in 2022, after having graduated.

Provided peers with constructive feedback for how to improve their coding practices.

Native speaker of Turkish and English, proficient in French, learning Japanese.

2025 Bay to Breakers, 2023 San Francisco Half Marathon, 2021 Columbia Gorge Half Marathon, 2020 Virtual Spartan, 2019 Boston Half Marathon.