MehmetcanBozkus

Software Engineer

Software Engineer with full-stack experience across Next.js, Spring Boot, Python, and Swift. Multiple hackathon winner, including 1st place at Türkiye's largest mobile hackathon. Published researcher in machine learning (IEEE). Built internal tools and automation systems at Elithair, Turkcell and Sekerbank.

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Selected awards

2025 — 2026

1st placeJuly 2026
Wraith Mobile Hackathon — View LinkedIn post (opens in a new tab)
Built Guido, an AI travel planner for iOS, with Arda Toprak and Deniz Saraç during a 24-hour hackathon in Ankara. Awarded 3 iPhone 17s.
1st placeNov. 2025
Smile Hair Clinic Mobile Hackathon — View LinkedIn post (opens in a new tab)
Developed "PentaCaptura," a native iOS app using Swift. Presented at Boğaziçi University. Awarded 3 MacBooks.
1st placeOct. 2025
fal × Adapty Istanbul Hackathon — View LinkedIn post (opens in a new tab)
Won Türkiye's largest mobile hackathon with an AI-powered app integrating Adapty and fal. $9,000 prize.
HackathonJuly 2025
MCP Hackathon — View LinkedIn post (opens in a new tab)
Built an MCP server for marketfiyati.org.tr (Turkish Ministry of Trade), exposing product search tools to LLMs. $1,000 prize.

Experience

Elithair

Jan. 2026 — Present

Full-Stack Developer

Developing a multi-tenant HR platform (onboarding, attendance, leave management, RBAC) with React, TypeScript, Prisma, and Node.js
Implemented a full-stack work/time tracking module with shift scheduling, employee assignment, and tenant-scoped data isolation

Sekerbank

Aug. 2024 — Sept. 2024

Software Engineer Intern

Built a full-stack loan payment simulation system using Next.js, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL, enabling users to create and compare various loan scenarios
Designed frontend interfaces and backend APIs for financial modeling with complex calculation logic

Turkcell

Aug. 2023 — June 2024

Long Term Intern

Led the development of a full-stack internal dashboard using Next.js for the Cloud Backup team, with automated data retrieval from Turkcell servers and real-time database integration
Developed Python automation scripts for the Veeam Backup & Replication REST API, streamlining operations for the Cloud Backup team
Implemented a fully automated email notification system for Turkcell Bulut customers with custom templates and logging

Education

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University

Sept. 2021 — June 2025

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

Ecole 42

March 2023 — Aug. 2023

Programming

Publication

Fake News Detection on Social Media Data using Community Notes with Machine Learning

IEEE · July 2025

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Toolkit

Java: Spring Boot, Spring Data, Maven
Python: uv, scikit-learn, pandas, NumPy, FastAPI
Next.js: React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, TanStack
SQL: MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL
Swift: SwiftUI, iOS
Node.js: Express, Prisma, REST API, Sentry
C: Algorithms, Data structures
Tools: Linux, Git, Docker, Selenium

Let’s build something.

hey@mehmetcan.me +90 552 662 38 44

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