
Sr. Software Developer
Turkey

Sr. Software Developer
Turkey
Creating custom data analysis and management solutions using C#, C++, SAS, and other languages.
(Computer Software industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
• Developing QuantPro, a set of quantitative analysis tools for Microsoft .NET and Excel.
• Ported an optimization and simulation program that used Matlab, GAMS, and an Excel Macro to an Excel add-in using C++. Resulting add-in was 25x faster.
• Created a fluent variable generation API in C#. It allowed the client to quickly generate complex variables.
• Developed the backend for the TÜSIAD-Koç University Economic Research Forum data download project.
• Created an application that creates and estimates near-VAR models using C# and dnAnalytics. The application was used in a Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking article.
• Created a customer purchase simulation program with configurable customer preferences and inventory models using C++.
• Developed the retail application Simple Server Monitor. Allowed fo monitoring of servers and remote services from user's desktops.
• Created numerous other data generating, management, and analysis programs using C# and C++.
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)
May 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 10 months)
• Supported economists and research assistants on computing issues related to current analysis, forecasting, and research.
• Maintained and improved applications/scripts used to generate economic forecasts.
• Wrote an object oriented Java interface around the FAME C-API, which was similar to TimeIQ.
• Wrote a MPI-based C++ program to estimate stochastic volatility, jump-diffusion models on a Beowulf cluster.
• Created a FAME interface to allow users to read and write MS Excel worksheets directly from FAME.
• Developed a tool to convert FAME data into XML (SDMX format) as a member of Downloadable Data Project.
• Created tools to assist users with U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) annual and comprehensive national income and product accounts (NIPA) data revisions.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — May 2002 (2 years)
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
• Assisted faculty and graduate students with data manipulation and statistical programming projects using SAS, SPSS, STATA, C++, E-Views, Excel, Java, and other software.
• Facilitated students’ ability to select, manipulate, and analyze data by creating a DHTML interface to SAS, which is used to teach statistical methods to undergraduate students without proficiency in SAS.
• Allowed users to query library holdings of Institute of Government Affairs by developing and implementing web page using Perl and MySQL.
• Created multiple statistical and data manipulation programs in SAS, SPSS, STATA, C++, and Java.
• Designed and implemented a statistical library in Java.
M.A. , Economics , 1994 — 1997
B.A. , Economics
optimization techniques, machine learning, new technology