Software Developer

Safa TOPAL

Address: Yahya Kemal Mah. Yahya Kemal Cad. Yazar Sok. No:2/11.

Kağıthane/İstanbul

E-mail: ****.*****@*****.***

Mobile: +90-532-***-****

Professional Web Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/safatopal

Objective:

As an enthusiastic and ambitious person, I am looking for an opportunity that will utilize my skills and

education as well as enable me to use my talents to solve challenging problems in software development within

my organization with not only continuous growth of my experience and knowledge but also contributing

towards the achievements of the organization.

Education:

Bilkent University in Ankara/TURKEY – 2008 - 2014

o BSc. in Information Technologies

o CGPA: 3.25, Honors Degree

Favorite Courses:

Object-Oriented Programming (practiced in Java)

Data Structures & Algorithms (practiced in C)

Mobile Application Development (practiced on Android)

Computer Algorithms – Analysis of well-known algorithms

Advanced Software Engineering – Design Patterns, Software Development life-cycle

Web Technologies

CCNA Exploration I & II – Networking Fundamentals, Routing - Switching

Data Security in Computing

Project Management in Information Systems

Software Testing Verification & Validation

Carlow Institute Of Technology in Carlow/IRELAND – 2010 - 2011

o ERASMUS Student - Science in Computing

o One academic year ERASMUS experience with other students from all over the world

Giresun Anatolian Teacher High School in Giresun/TURKEY – 2002 - 2007

o Mathematics

Work Experience:

Kron Telecommunications Services - Software Developer – September 2014 – (Ongoing)

o Started working on a nation-wide Network Monitoring project consisted of Java, Big Data,

ORM(Hibernate), Spring Framework and GWT/GXT technologies.

Cisco Systems – Lab Admin / College Intern, February 2013 – July 2014

o Assisted System Engineers on customer demos of various Cisco Systems products by setting up labs,

system scenarios and installing various servers/applications.

o Developed inventory management software for Demo Lab in Java & MySQL with the purpose of

recording demo equipment sent to or received from customer, equipment inside & outside of the

lab. Used Eclipse & Java EE for software development and official MySQL server, workbench and

command line tools.

o Managed virtualization of servers in the lab with UCS servers and VMware ESXi & KVM hypervisors

from network configuration phase to UCS server & VM installation & management phases.

o Assisted Collaboration Team by maintaining Cisco IEC (Interactive Experience Client) based kiosk.

Continued to develop various applications for this device and maintained them:

Maintained base application for front-end services that will be provided to clients in

demos/expos in HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

Developed front-end of Remote Expert application using JavaScript/HTML that uses CUCM

as a communications controller to make calls to another devices registered on CUCM;

therefore kiosk was able to make voice & video calls to a remote device.

o Installed and configured various virtual/physical servers and applications for customer demos & lab

maintenance purposes e.g.: Windows Servers, RHEL 6.4 and Ubuntu Server, Cisco Unified

Communications Manager, Cisco Wireless Controller, Cisco Prime Infrastructure.

o Took the ownership of demonstrations and acceptance tests for a national project in Turkey. The

project consisted of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller, Cisco Access Points, Cisco Prime Infrastructure,

KVM, VMware ESXi, several switching technologies and DHCP & NTP servers. I was responsible for

installing, configuring, maintaining and demonstrating Cisco wireless technologies to the customers.

Cisco Systems – Cisco IEC based Kiosk Software Developer in Cisco Expo 2012, October 2012

o Developed base application for front-end services that will be provided to clients in demos/expos in

HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

o As a service, developed a web application that can take photos of clients in front of the Kiosk and

send these photos to the entered e-mail address by the client in PHP, SMTP, HTML and JavaScript.

o As public services, included various public information in the application. For instance: public news,

touristic information, pharmacies on duty, road traffic density information etc.

Profelis Bilisim Danismanlik – Intern, June 2012 - July 2012

o Developed a web application in PHP, HTML and JQuery for recording & processing applications for a

series of regular academic conferences.

Awards and Achievements:

Recognition Award (Win Together) in Cisco Systems, 2014

Best Internship Award in Bilkent University, CTIS – 2014

High Honors Degree in Bilkent University, CTIS – 2009/2010

Honors Degree in Bilkent University, CTIS – 2013/2014

Honors Degree in Bilkent University, CTIS – 2012/2013

Honors Degree in Bilkent University, CTIS – 2011/2012

2nd Place in Photography Competition organized by National Agency – 2012

Speaking Languages:

Turkish: Native Proficiency

English: Full Professional Proficiency

Spanish: Elementary Proficiency

Social Activities/Memberships:

Bilkent University – Informatics Club Membership

Bilkent University – Literature and Idea Society Membership

Carlow IT – Debating Society Membership

Technical Skills:

Programming Languages:

o HTML, CSS, JavaScript

o PHP, .NET

o C/C++, JAVA SE & EE, Objective-C, C#

o MySQL, WebDB

Frameworks

o jQuery & jQuery UI

o jQuery Mobile

o Node.js

o Phonegap

Software Engineering Concepts

o Object Oriented Programming

o Data Structures

o Computer Algorithms

o Software Engineering Principles & Process Models

o Software Architecture – Design Patterns

o Mobile Application Development on Android & iOS

Systems & Networking Technologies

o Linux System Administration: DHCP, NTP, LAMP, FTP

o Server Virtualization: VMware, KVM

o Wireless Networking

o Cisco Technologies: Prime Infrastructure, Cisco Wireless Technologies, Switches, Routers

o Routing – switching fundamentals

o Cisco IOS configuration

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