Eda Akturk
Developer Advocate
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEda Akturk is a Developer Advocate based in New York with nine years of experience bridging developer communities and cutting-edge blockchain technologies. She has driven developer growth at organizations like the Ethereum Foundation and BuidlGuidl, and currently shapes developer experience at Abacus Works with a focus on Ethereum, ZK, and modular blockchains. Her background spans enterprise technical roles at Cisco and GE Healthcare, giving her a rare mix of pre-sales engineering, product prototyping, and analytics-driven tooling. An active open-source contributor, she has improved scaffold-eth-2 with Hardhat configuration, linting, and frontend UX tweaks to make Ethereum development more accessible. Eda is also an educator and communicator who favors Twitter for community engagement, consistently turning complex crypto concepts into practical, learnable resources.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Koç ÜniversitesiBachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at Koç University
Github Skills (13)
hardhat10
typescript10
nextjs10
typescripts10
solidity10
tailwindcss10
typescript-types10
ethereum9
daisyui8
ethersjs8
wagmi7
vim7
daap6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
scaffold-eth/scaffold-eth-2
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Open source forkable Ethereum dev stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eda contributed to the development of the `scaffold-eth-2` repository, focused on enhancing its functionality and maintainability. Their contributions included adding network configurations and private key setups to the Hardhat configuration, integrating linting tools for the Hardhat package, and implementing UI enhancements in the frontend. Furthermore, the user added comments to the Solidity smart contract and related Hardhat files, improving code readability and maintainability.
daisyuidappethereumethersjshardhat
edakturk14/ethereum-developer-resources
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Curated list of resources to getting started with Ethereum
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 months
ethereumblockchain
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