Gizem Ocak
Senior Software Engineer at The Athletic
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGizem Ocak is a Senior Software Engineer based in Canada with nine years of hands-on full‑stack experience building and scaling web applications. She brings deep practical knowledge across JavaScript/TypeScript front-ends (React, Vue, RxJS, Styled Components) and back-end services (Node/Express, PHP, GraphQL), and has recently focused on high-impact work at The Athletic. Her background includes full ownership of features from UI to API, experience integrating Rust into web stacks, and a history of shipping product and marketing sites at fast-moving companies. A lifelong learner who completed bootcamp and continued self-directed studies, she combines practical engineering with a designer’s attention to UI detail (Material-UI, Ant Design, SCSS). Colleagues describe her as a dependable full-stack problem solver who translates product needs into maintainable, testable code.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
freeCodeCampcertificate Full-stack Web Development Bootcamp, certificate Full-stack Web Development Bootcamp at Lighthouse LabsComputer Science, Computer Science at Algonquin College International Education CentreUdemy AcademyBusiness Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at George Brown College
Github Skills (20)
meta-tags9
github8
git8
expressjs8
patch7
mongodb7
react6
nodejs6
subversion5
pair-programming4
visual-studio3
collaboration3
javascript3
lighthouse3
socket-io3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gizemocak/CharEatee
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Charity-Gorcery connection for food donation, built with React and NodeJS
Contributions:176 commits, 39 PRs, 140 pushes in 13 days
reactbuilt-with-reactexpressjsfoodmeta-tags
gizemocak/gizemocak.github.io
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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