Eren Bali

Current

• Advisor at Pikkoo
• Developer at speeddate.com

Past

• Director of Engineering at SpeedDate.com
• CEO & Cofounder at Knowband
• CEO & CO-founder at Eofer (formerly Invento)

• Developer at BitGravity
• Lead Flex Developer at Dovetail.tv
• Front-end Developer at Gunlukbasin.com

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Education

• Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi
• Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi
• Middle East Technical University

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• Twitter
• My Company

Eren Bali’s Summary

A young entrepreneur and passionate contributor of high tech startups

Eren Bali’s Specialties:

Building companies, RIA Development, Software design patterns, Web 2.0 projects, Flash video streaming, Advanced e-learning technologies

Eren Bali’s Experience

• Advisor

  Pikkoo

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Developer

  speeddate.com

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

• Director of Engineering

  SpeedDate.com

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2009 — June 2009 (6 months)

  For a temporary time, responsible from engineering operations of rising online dating company focused on instant communication and personal chemistry. Contributed in numerous sections of the product including AS3 based video dating component, back-end architecture design, house-grown PHP framework implementation, email marketing tools, split testing infrastructure, social media & mobile applications, continuous deployment tools and even initial visual designs.

• CEO & Cofounder

  Knowband

  (Internet industry)

  September 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  Designing software architecture of next generation e-learning focused social network. Knowband is a community oriented platform that aims to be the 1st place to effectively share knowledge on the net. It provides a brand new virtual classroom application that already has features like audio/video sharing, presentation sharing, whiteboard, chat, live poll, participant list and a component architecture that enables 3rd parties to develop new applications to be used inside the main virtual classroom app. These courses are also recorded and can be watched later on site or be downloaded for people who missed the live experience.

• CEO & CO-founder

  Eofer (formerly Invento)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 3 months)

• Developer

  BitGravity

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

  March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

• Lead Flex Developer

  Dovetail.tv

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

  January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)

  Lead developer in the flex interface of the next generation independent films portal.

• Front-end Developer

  Gunlukbasin.com

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2005 — August 2005 (8 months)

  Building a popular news aggregation site built in Adobe Flex platform. Gunlukbasin combines RSS of popular daily news sites with additional data from its semantic news crawler to get additional data like pictures, complete news text etc...

Eren Bali’s Education

• Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi

  Mathematics 2002 — 2006

• Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi

  Computer Engineering 2001 — 2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Metu Computer Club, Metu Youth Festival

• Middle East Technical University

  Bachelor , Computer Engineering , 2001 — 2005

Additional Information

Eren Bali’s Websites:

• My Company
• Twitter
• My Company

Eren Bali’s Groups:

•    Turkish-American Hi-Tech Professionals
•    Turkish Professionals in USA
•    Web 2.0 Turkey - Webrazzi.com
•    Adobe Flex Developers
•    Adobe AIR Developers
•    Europe 2.0 - web 2.0, startups, funding, & entrepreneurship in Europe
•    Venture Capital and Private Equity in Turkey
•    TURKISH BUSINESS NETWORK
•    TheFunded Founder Institute

Eren Bali’s Honors:

42nd International Mathematical Olympiad,
2nd Place
June 29th -July 12th, 2001 in Washington DC/USA

Entrance Exam for Graduate Studies (LES),
1st place in all categories among 140.000 graduates,
April 2006, Turkey

8th Balkan Mathematical Olympiad,
2nd Place
May 3rd-8th, 2001 in Belgrade/YUGOSLAVIA

Mediterranean Mathematical Olympiad,
1st Place (National Rank)
2001, Ankara / TURKEY

TUBİTAK 8th National Mathematical Olympiad,
1st Place
December 2000 in Ankara / TURKEY

TUBİTAK 8th National Physic Olympiad,
Summer Camp for a position in first 20
December 1999 in Ankara / TURKEY

1st National Mathematic Competition among Primary Schools,
1st Place
May 1997 Kayseri / TURKEY

Government Scholarship Examination
3rd Place among 100.000 candidates, 1996

Qualification for attendance of team preparation and science camps in both Mathematics and Physics branches, 1999, 2000, 2001

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