Firat Ciftci
Software Engineer at UChicago Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFirat Ciftci is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications for digital humanities and cultural heritage projects, currently at the University of Chicago’s Forum for Digital Culture. He specializes in Next.js-based front ends and Node.js back-end tooling, maintaining a pnpm/Turborepo monorepo that powers 10+ university projects and a bespoke CLI for remote deployments. Firat has a proven track record of scaling data-driven sites—most notably designing the Ottoman Inscriptions Project’s SPA and rebuilding Nişanyan Sözlük to serve millions of monthly page views—while also modeling and cleaning large, complex datasets for OCHRE integration. With dual training in computer science and Near & Middle Eastern studies, he blends technical engineering with domain knowledge to turn archival materials into interactive web experiences.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
IB Baccalaureate (May 2017), IB Baccalaureate (May 2017) at The Koç SchoolMaster of Arts - MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Master of Arts - MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Chicago
Turkish, English, Spanish, Persian, Arabic, turkish, ottoman (1500-1928), Kurdish, Uzbek
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Github Skills (115)
countdown10
usestate10
browser10
countdown-timer10
react-scroll10
counter10
timer10
nimble10
hook9
cartography9
mapbox-gl9
tiles9
scroll9
maplibre-gl9
react-native9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
uchicago-digitalculture-webdev/ochre-sdk
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for OCHRE
Contributions:1 review, 50 PRs, 127 pushes in 2 months
cultural-heritagedigital-culturedigital-humanitiesochreparser
uchicago-cs/cmsc22000-dummy-repo
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 PRs in 3 years 9 months
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