About Me

I started programming at 12 years old (in 2017) — though back then I wasn't really doing much of anything. On a Minecraft server my friend and I ran, I'd tweak Java code for plugins that I barely understood.

2019 was the year I properly started learning to program. The first language I learned from scratch was JavaScript — I was actually learning it to get into web development, but what you could do with Node.js interested me so much that getting into web dev got pushed back a bit. (Also, web design just isn't for me, and it's really hard.)

In 2020 I built a Discord bot aimed at Turkish users that streamed audio using Lavalink (Ritim Bot). It gained good traction, serving 500 servers, but I shut the project down afterward to focus on high school. (It was a free project, and the Turkish community was hesitant to donate — there was no income from it at all.) Since 2021 I've been developing software in what I'd consider a professional capacity.

I first got my amateur radio license in Turkey, with the callsign TA2EDH — the equivalent of the country's highest license class, A. In Germany, I hold the callsign DJ1EH. As a licensed amateur radio operator, I work with RF technology, antenna building, and my own PCB designs.

In high school I led the school's technology club and got my school registered with Hack Club, making us the first Turkish chapter of the community. I competed in TÜBİTAK's national high-school UAV competition as team captain. I organized Turkey's first hackathon for high school students. I led the IT team for a science workshop aimed at high schoolers, and since my school didn't have an IT team, I wrote a fully automated email management system and an engagement network for my school.

These days I'm building smaller projects and prioritizing university life. (Who knows, maybe I'll end up in academia someday.)