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Quilt

Game Producer

Mar 2023 - Sep 2024

Chicago, Illinois (Remote)

Orchestrated the formation and growth of the Game Team at Quilt, instrumental in developing and releasing over 50 games focused on mental health, by managing all aspects of recruitment, hiring, and onboarding.
Streamlined game production with an effective sprint pipeline, significantly contributing to the platform's mission in mental health enhancement.
Employed data-driven strategies and user feedback for game selection, ensuring engaging and beneficial content for the platform's users.
Collaborated extensively with back-end, app development, and psychology teams, ensuring a multidisciplinary approach in aligning game features with Quilt's holistic mental health objectives.
Worked closely with the CEO to ideate and strategize key platform features, maintaining alignment with the company’s vision and user-centric goals.
Developed a robust partnership model, managing collaborations with external entities and representing Quilt in industry events to forge new connections and expand business opportunities.
Led a diverse team, maintaining project efficiency and quality, while ensuring alignment with Quilt’s financial and expansion goals.

Pixelized Studio

Co-Founder & CTO

Sep 2020 - Feb 2023

Ankara, Turkey

Planning and implementing strategies to execute the company's vision and meet financial goals.
Developing technical solutions and working with the development team to execute them.
Managed over 40 game projects from start to finish as a Product Manager.
Creating game design documents and pitch decks to propose to publishing companies and investors.
Furthermore, I contributed to the game projects as a developer, coding features in C# and Unity

I had significant supervisory and managerial responsibilities, overseeing a team of 12 employees, including developers, designers, and artists, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects and the quality of the final product. I was responsible for making sure that the company's vision was on track, the financial goals were met and constantly seeking new ways of revenue and growth.

ITU

Europe Youth Envoy

Dec 2020 - Current

Global

Creating a declaration that represents the voice of youth on digital transformation.
Directly working and partnering with young leaders from around the world.
Attending global scale events as an ITU Delegation.

As a Europe Youth Envoy at ITU, I gained valuable experiences in international and intercultural communication, project management, and advocacy for youth in the digital transformation space.

Kodluyoruz

AI Instructor & CS:50 Translator

Nov 2019 - Jan 2020

Ankara, Turkey

I had the opportunity to collaborate with Harvard University to translate their entire CS:50 course to Turkish
Enabling over 50,000 Turkish students to access Harvard-level quality education content for free.
As an AI instructor, I taught courses in collaboration with my university club and Kodluyoruz.

Education

THWS

Computer Science Exchange Term

Exchange Semester in Germany
For my Computer Science bachelors

Mar 2022 - Oct 2022

Würzburg, Germany

Kırıkkale University

Computer Science Bachelors Degree

Sep 2018 - Current

Kırıkkale, Turkey

Computer Science Bachelors degree

Activities and Student Clubs:

For 2 years I was the President of a student club called "Yüksek Mühendislik Topluluğu". I organized coding classes that impacted over 100 students by gathering a team of skilled students, collaborating with top tech education organizations.

Google & Game Factory

Game Booster Startup Accelerator Program

Jan 2021 - Aug 2021

Online

Pixelized Studio was accepted into the Startup accelerator program run by Google and Game Factory. We were one of 14 teams accepted out of 360 who applied.
We got mentorship from industry leaders on subjects like Marketing, Game Industry, Product Management, Business Development.
In addition, we were able to establish valuable connections with Founders, CEOs of successful companies, and Venture Capitalists.

Professional skillset

Entrepreneurial Mindset

Product Management

Team Management

Business Development

Agile Development

Sales Abilities

Networking Abilities

Decision Making

Languages

Turkish (native)

English (full proficiency)

German (starter)

Technical skillset

Unity Engine

Python

Object Oriented Programming

Data science

Javascript

Events & Conferences

MISK Global Forum 2022

ITU Delegate

8 - 11 November 2022

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Sponsored and selected by Misk Foundation
I participated in the Misk Global Forum 2022 where change-makers and leaders from all over the world got together in Riyadh

GC Global Youth Summit

GIZ German Delegation

1 - 7 June 2022

Kigali, Rwanda

Sponsored by GIZ (The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit)
I participated in the first ITU Global Youth Summit with the German Delegation and as a representative for the Youth of Europe

Hyper Games Conference

Panel Speaker

17 September 2022

Ankara, Turkey

I was invited to a Game Industry Conference as a panelist for the subject "Overivew of The Hypercasual Market In 2022"

Global Game Jam

Mentor

February 2023

I was invited by The Game Circle to attend their Global Game Jam 2023 event as a mentor for the participant teams.

Ankara, Turkey

ITU Regional Innovation Forum For Europe

Panel Speaker

I was invited to speak about my experiences as a young entrepreneur on the session: "Youth and Innovation"

September 2023

Online Event

ITU COUNCIL 2023

Speaker

July 2023

Online Event

I have been invited to participate in the ITU Council 2O23 taking place in Geneva
I attended as a representative of Generation Connect Europe