Can Duruk

Current

Online Editor at The Tartan

Past

Quality Assurance Engineer at Yahoo!
Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University
Cluster Consultant at Carnegie Mellon University

Intern at Zadaca Digital Media

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University
Robert College

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Industry

Computer Software

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Can Duruk’s Summary

Student at Carnegie Mellon with Cognitive Science and Human-Computer Interaction education. Interested in user interface development and usability research.

Can Duruk’s Specialties:

Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, XHTML, HTML, XPath, Selenium, Java, CSS, usability, accessibility, interaction design, user research, user interface design, user interface architectures

Can Duruk’s Experience

Online Editor

The Tartan

(Newspapers industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

I worked on adding new features to our content management system as well as maintaining servers and workstations.
Quality Assurance Engineer

Yahoo!

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

May 2009 — August 2009 (4 months)

I have created an extensive and well-integrated testing framework the Yahoo! Buzz product.
Research Assistant

Carnegie Mellon University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

July 2008 — September 2008 (3 months)

I am currently assisting research that focuses on mobile data types and mobile phone applications. My research is focused on increasing usability of such applications.
Cluster Consultant

Carnegie Mellon University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 2008 — August 2008 (8 months)

I worked as a cluster consultant, responsible for maintaining computer clusters all around the campus.
Intern

Zadaca Digital Media

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

July 2007 — August 2007 (2 months)

Interned in the design department; helped with realization of the design templates and generating new ones.

Can Duruk’s Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Bsc , Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction , 2006 — 2010 (expected)

Online Editor and Systems Manager at The Tartan, campus paper

PR Manager at cmuTV

Activities and Societies:

cmuTV, The Tartan
Robert College

High School Diploma , 2001 — 2006

Vice president of Model United Nations club, the biggest club on campus. Founder of RCIMUN, an international Model United Nations conference held at Robert College each year.

Activities and Societies:

Model United Nations