Neslihan Turan is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Android and Java development, currently contributing to Wikimedia Deutschland while also managing an Open edX-based product as Technical Product Manager. She has deep expertise in maintaining large, decade-old open source projects—most notably as a core contributor to the Wikimedia Commons Android app—covering feature development, CI/CD, documentation, and onboarding of new contributors. Based in Istanbul and educated in Computer Engineering at Marmara University, she combines hands-on coding with product judgment and remote collaboration skills. A GNU/Linux enthusiast and GPG user, she brings a pragmatic focus on clean code, maintainability, and community-driven development.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Engineeting, Computer Engineeting at Marmara University
The Wikimedia Commons Android app allows users to upload pictures from their Android phone/tablet to Wikimedia Commons
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:252 reviews, 81 commits, 611 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Neslihan primarily contributed to the development of the Wikimedia Commons Android application, adding new features and improving the user interface. They implemented base classes for activities and AppCompatActivities, ensuring consistent styling and theming across the application. Furthermore, the user introduced features for the display of nearby media items in the UI and the implementation of search functionallity. These changes included integration of map functionality, and related button implementations.
Contributions:67 commits, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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