Faruk Toptaş
Software Engineer at Aurora Bilişim
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolFaruk Toptaş is a seasoned Android engineer with 10 years of experience building production-grade mobile apps and cross-platform tooling, currently developing software at Aurora Bilişim in Istanbul. He brings deep expertise in Java and Kotlin, modern architectures (MVP/MVVM), Android Architecture Components, dependency injection, reactive and coroutine-based concurrency, and test-driven practices including JUnit and Espresso. Previously he led Android development at ING Türkiye and contributed to Smartface’s cross-platform studio and mobile banking projects, giving him strong domain experience in finance-grade security and CI/CD. An active open-source maintainer, he created and enhanced the FancyShowCaseView library—adding animated focus areas, rounded rectangles, custom fonts and RecyclerView samples—demonstrating attention to UX polish and reusable component design. Known for pragmatic engineering in Agile teams, he pairs low-level platform fluency with a designer’s eye for material-inspired interfaces.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
2.67, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, 2.67, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree at Istanbul University
English
Stackoverflow
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uiviewcontroller
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Github Skills (14)
kotlin10
android-library10
android-ui10
custom-view10
android10
animation10
uiviewcontroller9
material-design9
storyboard6
objective-c6
listview6
android-jetpack-compose6
ios6
iphone6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
faruktoptas/FancyShowCaseView
Mar 2017 - Mar 2022
An easy-to-use customisable show case view with circular reveal animation.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:34 releases, 3 reviews, 186 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Faruk primarily contributed to the Android library `fancyshowcaseview`, adding features and refactoring code. Their work included the initial implementation of the library with license and README, followed by an update to the Gradle configuration for Jitpack integration, and subsequent enhancements to the library with added features such as the implementation of animated focus area, rounded rectangle focus enhancement, custom font, and supporting for multiple instances of showcase queue. The user also addressed several issues and added a sample for RecyclerView.
animationandroid-uiandroid-libraryandroidcircular-reveal
faruktoptas/yTranslate
Jul 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 4 years 4 months
translationyandexgreasemonkeytranslatestranslate
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