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My name is S. Tarık Çetin. I am also known online as starikcetin. I am a self-motivated, hard-working, and passionate software engineer. I specialize in game development, full-stack web development, and DevOps. I have a deep interest in everything that works with transistors.

I have been tinkering with software ever since my childhood, and I started taking it seriously during my high school years. I always give my best to everything I work on. I take great pleasure in working with people who love and respect their craft as much as I do. I love learning, and it brings me joy to share my experiences with people. I love open-source software and see it as a way of giving back to the community.

I am an avid stoic. I am interested in psychology, aviation, and physics. I enjoy listening to good music, drinking whiskey, and watching the sunset. I love the winter and the snow, the sea, and the space. I have been a gamer since the age of 5.

Skills

Team Leadership

  • Total experience + years
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  • Team lead and scrum master of the Unity Core Team at Albert.
  • De-facto tech lead of Easy Clap Games as the only senior developer.
  • Team leader and project manager of our senior project for Bilkent University.

Game Development

  • Total experience + years
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  • Expert knowledge of Unity and C#.
  • Intermediate knowledge of OpenGL, GLUT, and WebGL.
  • Experimented with Godot, Unreal, Pixi, Phaser, Cocos2d-x, and Box2D.

Web Development

  • Total experience + years
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  • Expert knowledge of React, TypeScript, and Node.
  • Intermediate knowledge of Angular, Stencil, Ionic, Socket.io, and Express.
  • Experience with Webpack, Parcel, Babel, Jest, and Firebase.

Experience

Deep Space InteractiveCo-founder & Tech Lead

  • Ankara, Turkey
  • Full-time
  • Founded in October 2024, Deep Space Interactive is a team of two game industry veterans with over a decade of combined experience and a burning passion for games.

Career BreakSabbatical

  • Working out, meditating, and travelling; to improve my fortitude, resilience, and composure.

Albert

  • Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Full-time
    • Unity Team Lead
    • Senior Unity Developer
  • Developed Albert Junior: a set of educational games with Unity and React Native targeting iOS and Android.
  • Developed and maintained the Unity platform core, internal frameworks, tools, and CI systems.
  • Prepared and tested releases. Optimised size and performance. Fixed complex bugs.
  • Supervised Unity monorepo. Ensured technical coordination. Led cross-team concerns.
  • Integrated and maintained 3rd party SDKs such as Mixpanel, Braze, and Firebase.

Easy Clap GamesSenior Unity Developer

  • Ankara, Turkey
  • Full-time
  • Developed 6 hypercasual games with Unity targeting Android.
  • Optimised, built, and published 25 hypercasual games with Unity targeting Android.
  • Developed and maintained internal frameworks and tools.
  • Mentored all developers and led all projects as the de facto tech lead.
  • Integrated and maintained 3rd party SDKs such as GameAnalytics, Adjust, and Facebook.

Career BreakEducation

  • Led, managed, and developed our senior project Blockchain Technology Education Software (BTES) with React, Node, and Mongo.

Parabol

  • Ankara, Turkey
    • Frontend Developer
    • Full-time
    • Frontend Developer
    • Part-time
    • Unity Developer
    • Internship
  • Developed ARCitizen: R&D project for TÜBİTAK with Unity and Vuforia targeting Android and iOS.
  • Developed METIS, SBS, and Cermoni: proprietary web applications with React, Angular, and Ionic.
  • Developed open-source web components with StencilJs. They were also internally used across products.

Education

Bilkent UniversityBachelor of Science

  • Computer Technology and Information Systems (CTIS)
  • Ankara, Turkey
  • CGPA 3.25
  • Led, managed, and developed our senior project Blockchain Technology Education Software (BTES) with React, Node, and Mongo.

Awards

Best Intern Award

  • Issued by Bilkent University CTIS Department
  • Signifies the highest company and supervisor satisfaction among all interns of the same cohort. Awarded for my internship at Parabol.

Projects

See the Projects page for a list of notable projects that I took part in.