I'm a dreamer and I believe that through education and knowledge, people are empowered to carry out their dreams.
Background
- Born in Istanbul, Turkey
- BS, Information Systems Engineering at SUNY & BOUN
- UX Engineer at Redbeacon
- Speaks English, French & Turkish
- Loves soccer, photography and cooking
Checkout LinkedIn profile for details.
Work Life - Early days at Six Apart
- Joined Six Apart - Services right after college and worked as a developer/designer
- Worked closely with the clients and built large-scale content management systems
- Focused on information architecture, graphics design and front-end development
Work Life - Redbeacon
- Joined Redbeacon early 2011 as UX engineer
- Working closely with the product, design and engineering teams
- Responsible for user research, graphic design, interaction design & front-end development
- Released provider mobile app and mobile SEM landing recently (jQuery Mobile)
Personal Projects
Social search engine: Kimburda is a real time people search engine that looks into nearly every corner of the Web. People related information consisting of images, videos, phone numbers, email addresses, social networking and much more.
Social video network: FriendStream.TV combines the best parts of TV with the best of the Web and creates a stream of videos shared by your friends on Facebook, Twitter & other social networks.
Fundraising Platform: BenVarim empowers passionate nonprofit supporters to raise more money for the causes they care about.
Most Recent Project
If you are not ashamed of your product when you launch it,
you launched too late...
Elsewhere
- LinkedIn: gercekkarakus
- Twitter: @gercheq
- Github: gercheq
- Forrst: gercheq
- Facebook: gercek.karakus