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Lara Gul Kucukdevlet

London

Summary

Graduation Date:01-24-2025

Open to self-development and loves to learn. Comply to given deadlines and works diligently with excellent organizational and a leadership skills. Works well alone and in teams making valid contributions to the department and has good interpersonal skills and ready to be an asset to the department; punctual, meets deadlines and works well under pressure. Has good IT skills. Bi-lingual and holds dual nationality (Turkish and British). Following certificate programs and courses that will improve my career. Finished the track Program in the field of Artificial Intelligence at school. Met a broad range of people with hugely varied skillsets and gained new perspectives and new skills.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Part Time Systems Engineer

Fibabank
03.2024 - 10.2024
  • Automated tasks for production environment
  • Did server management: Windows, Linux, Unix
  • Managed backup and recovery
  • Monitored system and maintenance with Prometheus, Grafana and ELK Stack
  • Gained proficiency on Orchestration tools Kubernetes, Docker Swarm and in configuration tool Ansible
  • Gained proficiency in networking security and tools TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, HTTPs
  • Did continuous integration with Jenkins

Part Time CyberSecurity Working Student

Siemens
02.2023 - 08.2023
  • Worked on PSS (Products and Services Solutions)
  • Worked with both Siemens and other institutional professionals to make threat and security analysis.
  • Conducted research projects, gathering data and information from variety of sources.
  • Worked in team environment to maintain high levels of productivity.
  • Worked on Microsoft Office programs such as Excel, PowerPoint and PowerBI.
  • Did code review and static code analysis.
  • Worked on Cybersecurity tools: Metasploit, BurpSuite, Nmap, firewalls.
  • Gained professioncy on Kali Linux tools.

Ros Developer Summer Intern

TossoEngineering
07.2022 - 08.2022
  • Worked on construction of an autonomous robot that can read barcodes, measure distances with light and produce maps via the ROS package. Received the patent of this robot from Koçtaş and gained professional skills on Linux, C, ROS development.
  • Made effort to improve myself by paying attention to deadlines for this robot that we created as result of teamwork.
  • Managed to navigate through Linux file system and to interact with it.
  • Edited files using shell (vim editor), managed access to files(permissions), created simple Linux Programs (processes).
  • Connected to remote robot (SSH).

Data Analytics Intern

Ataol
03.2022 - 06.2022
  • Identified, analyzed and interpreted trends or patterns in complex data sets by finding correlations and visualizing with charts.
  • Utilized various professional statistical techniques and maintained large databases to collect and analyze data from partners and customers.
  • Assisted end-users with creating custom reports using software and database tools.
  • Explored new data sources to enhance current models.
  • Conducted consumer data analysis on products to assist with promotional campaigns.
  • Advanced Excel and BI Tools usage

Cybersecurity Club (KUSEC) Vice President

Koç University
02.2022 - 12.2023
  • Gave basic Linux training to students interested in cybersecurity. Provide training on other subjects such as networking and penetration testing.
  • Entered certified training program organized by BUCyber
    with this club and received cloud security training from Ali IŞIKLI, who works as CyberSecurity Architect at Aselsan.
  • Conducted meetings with professionals from Siemens, Aselsan.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Koç University
Istanbul, Turkey
01-2025

Track Programme - Artifical Intelligence And Machine Learning

Koç University
01-2025

Skills

    Hard Skills

  • Parallel Programming: CUDA, OpenACC,OpenMP
  • Artificial Intelligence: Strong foundation with a track programme in deep learning, computer vision and natural language processing
  • Programming Languages: Java, C, Python, NET, C, Scheme
  • Web Development: SpringBoot, Front End-Back End, Swift, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS,
  • Mobile Application Development: Flutter
  • System Management: Linux, Anthos, Grafana, Tomcat, Prometheus, Elastic Search Logtash, Kibana, Ansible, Docker,Kubernetes,Jenkins, DevOps
  • Cybersecurity: CISCO Packet Tracer, Network Security, Kali tools, Network Architecture
  • Game Development: Swing
  • Office Programmes: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerBI and MindView
  • Languages

  • Advanced English
  • Advanced Turkish
  • Intermediate proficiency in German
  • Beginner proficiency in Russian
  • Beginner proficiency in sign language
  • Soft Skills

  • Analytic thinking, Empathy, Innovative, Stress Tolerance, Problem-solving, Communication, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Networking, Public Speaking, Growth Mindset

Profession

Newly Graduated Computer Engineer

References:

Çağatay Avşar: Director of System Management at Fibabank

Sefa Eker: System and Middleware Manager at Fibabank 

Şükrü Güçlü Dutluca: Siemens Turkey Cyber Security Manager

Ahmet Furkan Kaya: Siemens Cyber Security Team leader

İlhan Tosyalı: Founder of Tosso Engineering


Projects

  • Innovative Solutions in the Digital Banking Ecosystem: Our project became first in the hackathon organized among Finterns with the support of Coderspace by Fibabank.With our EcoHarcama project, we categorized and analyzed our customers' expenditures to calculate their carbon footprints and propose offset projects for expenditures with high carbon footprints.
  • Kemohem: The application we have designed strengthen oncology nurses’ knowledge and enhances their efficiency by providing up to date information about drugs and offering a discussion forum to help them work collaboratively. Our goal is to create a cross-platform compatible application for both iOS and Android to reach a broader audience of oncology nurses.
  • NLP Sentiment Analysis: Fundamentals of implementation from scratch with NLP. IMDB raw dataset is used. The working principle of algorithm is based on Naive Bayes.
  • MLPS and backpropagation: Embedding and backpropagation techniques are implemented from scratch.
  • Convolutional Neural Network: Effect of hyperparameters are investigated on CNN models and transfer learning. As dataset, art&artist dataset by Zoya Bylinskii is used.
  • Recurrent Neural Network: Binary classification with RNN model and language modelling with LSTM layers are studied.
  • Graph Neural Network: Fundamentals of graph network and attention implementation for node classification are studied in the project. As dataset, cora set is used.

Timeline

Part Time Systems Engineer

Fibabank
03.2024 - 10.2024

Part Time CyberSecurity Working Student

Siemens
02.2023 - 08.2023

Ros Developer Summer Intern

TossoEngineering
07.2022 - 08.2022

Data Analytics Intern

Ataol
03.2022 - 06.2022

Cybersecurity Club (KUSEC) Vice President

Koç University
02.2022 - 12.2023

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Koç University

Track Programme - Artifical Intelligence And Machine Learning

Koç University
Lara Gul Kucukdevlet