SHEET 03 — LONGITUDINAL PROFILE
A career you can scroll
Follow the channel downstream — 2011 at the source, today at the gauge.
WORKJAN 2024 — PRESENT · İSTANBUL
Engineer — Turkish Water Institute (SUEN)
- Remote sensing for hydrological & agricultural analysis; WaPOR-based evapotranspiration assessments
- Scalable geospatial workflows on high-volume datasets with open-source tooling
- Environmental GIS vector datasets; print-quality scientific maps and visualizations
- Editorial review of two publications; UX/UI prototyping for an institutional academy platform in Figma
FIELDAPR 2024 · BERLIN → BONN → THE HAGUE
Executive Seminar on Water Diplomacy — German Federal Foreign Office; transboundary basins, negotiation in data-scarce regions
ROLESEP 2022 — SEP 2023
Hydrological Advisor of Türkiye at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
WORKFEB 2021 — DEC 2023 · ANKARA
Engineer — Turkish State Hydraulic Works (DSİ)
- Coordinated nationwide studies for an observation-based flood early warning system
- GIS spatial analysis supporting national streamflow monitoring; routine reporting lead
- Custom tools for data parsing, watershed delineation and geomorphological analysis
- Workshops & technical talks on hydrological modeling, flood early warning and GIS
FIELDAUG — SEP 2021 · BOZKURT, KASTAMONU
Post-disaster field survey after the historic Bozkurt flood — damaged hydraulic structures, floodplain change, sediment transport
WORKJAN 2019 — FEB 2021 · IOWA CITY, USA
Research Assistant — IIHR Hydroscience & Engineering, University of Iowa
- Hydrological modeling for flood prediction — physically based and data-driven
- Developed and validated AI models for flood forecasting
- Large-scale geospatial processing and model evaluation on HPC clusters
- Reproducible statistical workflows for hydrological and climatic variables
EDU2019 — 2020 · IOWA CITY
M.Sc. Civil & Environmental Engineering (Water Resources) — The University of Iowa · GPA 3.61 · Thesis: Exploration of Flood Forecasting and Flood Mitigation
EDU2018 · HOUSTON, USA
ESL — Rice University
AWARD2017
YLSY Graduate Scholarship (Ministry of Education & DSİ) — fully funded graduate study abroad · TÜBİTAK Graduate Research Fellowship (Grant 115Y673)
WORKMAR 2017 — MAR 2018 · ERZURUM
Researcher — Erzurum Technical University
- Rainfall and flood frequency analysis on historical observations
- TÜBİTAK project: multivariate flood frequency analysis using copulas — Euphrates Basin
EDU2011 — 2016 · İSTANBUL
B.Sc. Civil Engineering — İstanbul Technical University · with honors, completed in 3.5 years
▲ SOURCE — 2011
STATION READINGS — SKILLS
DATA & CODE
Python · pandas · NumPy
Matplotlib · dataviz
TensorFlow · scikit-learn
JavaScript · HPC · Git
GIS & REMOTE SENSING
QGIS · PyQGIS · Rasterio · geopandas
GDAL · ArcGIS · Leaflet
Google Earth Engine
DESIGN & DOCS
Figma · HTML · Markdown
LaTeX · Illustrator
LANGUAGES
TurkishNATIVE
EnglishFLUENT