Ahmet Alp Balkan

Current

• Chairman at TBD Genç
• Vice President, Co-Founder at İnternet ve Blog Yazarları Derneği
• Founder at mySchoolog

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Past

• Application Developer at FriendFeed

Education

• Bilkent Üniversitesi
• Bilkent Üniversitesi
• Kocaeli Fen Lisesi

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

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Ahmet Alp Balkan’s Summary

Working on web-based application development, social networks, collaboration tools, personel assistants, Web 2.0 Services, learning new programming languages-techniques and some about marketing strategies.

Ahmet Alp Balkan’s Specialties:

PHP, XHTML, CSS, Web Architecture, Java, JavaScript, AJAX, MySQL, XML/ATOM/RSS, OAuth, API Development For Web Services, RIA, Hibernate ORM, C++, Python

Ahmet Alp Balkan’s Experience

• Chairman

  TBD Genç

  (Internet industry)

  December 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Since Dec 2009, I'm chairman at administrative board of Türkiye Bilişim Derneği Genç (Turkish IT Association Youth Group).

• Vice President, Co-Founder

  İnternet ve Blog Yazarları Derneği

  (Internet industry)

  May 2009 — Present (9 months)

  İBYD (Internet Writers and Bloggers Association) is located in Turkey and aims to be a official representative of bloggers against the government. It organizes regular meetings in many cities for bloggers who live Turkey. More information is at blog.org.tr

• Founder

  mySchoolog

  (Education Management industry)

  January 2007 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  mySchoolog is an online application to organize your school life easily. You can easily organize everything about your school life with mySchoolog. It's available on 18 languages.

• Application Developer

  FriendFeed

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2009 — October 2009 (10 months)

  I developed seven 3rd party applications for FriendFeed network can be used by OAuth protocol offered from FriendFeed officially.
  
  These mashups are reviewed in many blogs and startup directories worldwide. They're named FFSMS, ffScheduler (Sponsored by Cevahir Istanbul AVM), FFSPY, FFSummary, ffOldAvatars, FFBlockr, WhenDidYouJoinFriendFeed.com.

Ahmet Alp Balkan’s Education

• Bilkent Üniversitesi

  B.S. , Computer Engineering , 2008 — 2012 (expected)

  I attended Bilkent University with Full Scholarship. Currently, I'm a Honor student.

  Activities and Societies:

  IEEE Student Chapter Computer Society Member

• Bilkent Üniversitesi

  computer 2004 — 2012 (expected)

• Kocaeli Fen Lisesi

  2004 — 2008

Additional Information

Ahmet Alp Balkan’s Websites:

• My RSS feed

Ahmet Alp Balkan’s Groups:

IEEE, İnternet ve Blog Yazarları Derneği (Internet Writers and Bloggers Association) , TBD Genç (Turkish IT Association Youth Group),

•    Semantic Web
•    Bilkent
•    Web 2.0 Turkey - Webrazzi.com
•    xkcd Fans
•    ACM SIGIR
•    Bilkent CS Network
•    BILMED-Bilkent Universitesi Mezunlar Dernegi
•    Web Güvenlik Topluluğu

Ahmet Alp Balkan’s Honors:

* 2007 INFOMATRIX International Programming Contest, Gold Medal (with mySchoolog.com project)
* 2005 BITEK-O Web Design Contest at Turkey Gold Medal
* 2008 Golden Spider (Altin Orumcek) Web Awards Finalist

Ahmet Alp Balkan’s Contact Settings

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