About

Berkan Ünal is a highly skilled Full Stack Engineer with over 4 years of relevant experience in the software development industry. He is currently working with Paraşüt, a startup that focuses on developing a software-as-a-service invoice and expenses management application to empower small businesses in Turkey. Berkan's technical expertise includes Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, Chrome extension, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Qunit, and rails-minitest, among others. He has implemented acceptance/integration tests for every contribution, reducing the test execution time of the CI pipeline by 80%. This has increased agility within the team and saved money for the company. Berkan has also mentored the team about semantic HTML and modern ES7 Javascript. He led the refactoring of the legacy chrome extension to be more modern by using ES6, webpack, babel, and typescript, which has substantially increased maintainability and dev team happiness. Previously, Berkan worked with Hipo, a product development company that works with startups and enterprises. He has previously worked with great startups like Robinhood, Algorand, Getir, and many others. His technical expertise includes Typescript, ES6, React, Redux, Scss, a11y, and i18n. Berkan collaborated with QA, design, and backend teams while working with the frontend team. He directly communicated with customers, responded to their needs swiftly, and enhanced accessibility of the project with better keyboard support. He improved semantics and aria tags and redesigned the project's date fields, number inputs, and texts for better internationalization. Berkan holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and completed his high school education in STEM at Eskisehir Fatih Fen Lisesi. His technical skills include Software Engineering, Ruby, Typescript, Frontend, Javascript, test, Integration, qa, Redux, Backend, and Ember.js. Berkan is an excellent team player, a quick learner, and always willing to take on new challenges.