Poyraz Akay
Salesman Software Engineer at Forward Maui - Quatro, Goya, MFC, KT - Windsurf, Surf, SUP
Haiku, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolPoyraz Akay is a full‑stack software engineer with 12 years of professional experience who blends a disciplined athlete’s mindset—he’s a former Youth World Champion windsurfer—with practical product-building skills. Based in Haiku, Hawaii and a U.S. Green Card holder, he ships responsive React front ends and Node.js/Express back ends, working with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis and AWS for reliable deployments. Trained at Hack Reactor and grounded in Applied Business & IT, he brings both TDD and agile practices to projects and a keen eye for UX via Figma. Currently combining sales and engineering at Forward Maui, he uniquely bridges customer-facing product insight with hands-on implementation. Notably, his background in professional sail testing gives him an unusual real-world product feedback loop that informs how he prioritizes features and performance.
12 years of coding experience
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program, Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program at Hack ReactorApplied Business and Information Technology, Applied Business and Information Technology at University of Hawaii Maui College
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (64)
minecraft10
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discord9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
roastnewt/AdventOfCode
Dec 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:50 pushes in 1 year
roastnewt/roastnewt
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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