Work Experience

DEPT

Remote

Software Engineer

August 2022 - present

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

Angular (TypeScript)

AngularDart (Dart)

Java

Google internal tooling

Company Culture

Guidance

Framework Homeownership

Boston, MA; Remote

Product Engineer

January 2022 - April 2022

Junior Product Engineer

January - December 2021

Junior Software Engineer

January - December 2020

Web Developer Co-op

June 2019 - December 2019

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.

Java

React (Javascript)

React Native

PostgreSQL

Design

Product Management

Company Culture

Guidance

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston, MA

Research Assistant, Center for Sleep and Cognition

August 2017 - June 2019

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.)

Neuro/Psych

Hospitality

Blackbird Doughnuts

Boston, MA

Barista (Doughnista)

August 2018 - May 2019

Served doughnuts, coffee, and ice cream.

Hospitality

Boston Children's Hospital

Boston, MA

Research Assistant, F.M. Kirby Center for Neurobiology

Summer 2014, July 2015 - February 2017

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

Neuro/Psych

Guidance

Harvard SEAS

Cambridge, MA

Student Intern, Visual Computing Group

Summer 2013

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.

Neuro/Psych

Guidance

Publications

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

Volunteer Work

San Francisco Public Library

San Francisco, CA

FOG Readers Tutor

October 2023 - present

Helping elementary school kids (one kid so far) catch up to grade-level reading (English.)

Teaching

Education

Soko Gakuen

San Francisco, CA

Studying Japanese.

January 2024 - present

Northeastern University

Boston, MA

B.S. in Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology

September 2016 - December 2020

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

Extracurricular Experience

Generate Northeastern University

Boston, MA

Software Project Lead

July - December 2020

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.

Leadership

Product Management

Guidance

Java

React

React Native

PostgreSQL

Bits&Bots Northeastern University

Boston, MA

Co-President

January - December 2020

Web Developer

January - December 2019

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.

Leadership

Outreach

Guidance

Teaching

React

CoSMO Northeastern University

Boston, MA

Peer Mentor

July - December 2020

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

Guidance

Khoury College Northeastern University

Boston, MA

Course Assistant, Fundamentals of Computer Science II

February - May 2018

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

Java

Teaching

Fun Facts

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

2023 San Francisco Half Marathon, 2021 Columbia Gorge Half Marathon, 2020 Virtual Spartan, 2019 Boston Half Marathon.