Zafer Elcik
Co-Founder & CEO at basil
Ankara, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolZafer Elcik is a social tech entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO with 11 years of experience building accessible edtech for children with autism and other special needs through Otsimo. He combines a computer science background with hands-on product and game-design experience to create affordable, game-based early learning tools that address a largely underserved population. As an Ashoka Fellow and award-winning social impact leader based in Ankara, he pairs community-rooted insight with startup execution, and serves on boards including basil and the Turkiye Entrepreneurship Foundation. His trajectory from web developer and game designer to CEO highlights a pragmatic maker’s mindset—balancing technical product development with systems-level advocacy for inclusion.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English
Stackoverflow
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1kreached
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Github Skills (9)
probability6
colours6
struct6
python6
pointer6
targets4
survey2
researchkit1
ios1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shareyourbasic/shareyourbasic.github.io
Jan 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
otsimo/otsimo.github.io
Jun 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:120 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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