Summary
Damla Köksal is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications and e-commerce platforms, currently contributing to Trendyol Group. She combines practical startup grit—co-founding a sustainable loungewear brand and shipping its Shopify-based storefront—with solid engineering skills in Next.js, React, Express, .NET Core, and multiple databases. Her background includes Web3 work (Next.js with Ethers, Hardhat) and Elixir/Phoenix, showing comfort across modern stacks and testing practices like Cypress and Jest. Damla has international experience studying English in Washington D.C., which complements her Istanbul-based engineering career and aids cross-functional collaboration. Fast to learn and research-driven, she moves between product-facing UI/UX changes and backend API work, often taking ownership from prototyping to deployment.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bahçeşehir English as a Second Language (BESL) Program, ESL101B through ESL104B, Bahçeşehir English as a Second Language (BESL) Program, ESL101B through ESL104B at Mentora College
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, 3.15, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, 3.15 at Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi
English, Turkish