Sefa Ağardan

Backend Engineer

Building scalable backend systems and AI-powered applications. Experienced in multi-tenant architectures, secure REST APIs, and production-grade computer vision pipelines.

Experience

FurtherUp

Full-stack Engineer · Contract

FurtherUp Drive

Apr 2025 — Present

Kadıköy, Istanbul · Remote

Built and deployed an enterprise coaching platform from scratch: a multi-tenant Spring Boot and React system with JWT RBAC, assessment engines, SMART goal tracking, package-based feature gates, Iyzico subscriptions, email workflows, cloud storage, backups, and production infrastructure.

Spring Boot React / TypeScript MySQL JWT / RBAC Cloudflare R2

Istanbul Arel University / TÜBİTAK TEYDEB 1505

Scholarship Student

Feb 2025 — Dec 2025

Büyükçekmece, Istanbul

Developed C-based infrared image-processing algorithms on ESP32 embedded devices for human detection in smart buildings, optimizing real-time processing under tight hardware constraints. Also built Flutter modules for live sensor monitoring and device-control dashboards.

C ESP32 Flutter Infrared CV

HAVELSAN

AI Software Engineer Intern

HLD Project

Jul 2025 — Aug 2025

Pendik, Istanbul · Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing Team

Worked on maritime computer-vision pipelines for real-time detection and segmentation. Implemented CUDA-accelerated preprocessing for dehazing and glare filtering, evaluated horizon-segmentation approaches, and optimized inference for high-FPS systems.

PyTorch CUDA OpenCV YOLO / RT-DETR / U-Net

Education

Istanbul Arel University

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering · 3.96 / 4.00

Aug 2021 — Jun 2026

Istanbul, Türkiye

University Valedictorian — ranked first among all undergraduate graduates, as well as Faculty of Engineering and Computer Engineering Department Valedictorian. Focused on backend systems, AI, computer vision, and secure system design.

Backend Projects

Backend

Flashcard App (Full-Stack)

Full-stack web app where users create flashcard sets and share them publicly or with friends. Secure auth: JWT, salts, pepper, Argon2. Friends system and admin dashboard.

C# .NET MVC JavaScript MySQL AWS JWT + Argon2
Backend

Fake AI Checker (Full-Stack)

Secure ASP.NET Core MVC app simulating AI content detection while scanning uploaded files and archives for leaked API keys, tokens, and secrets.

C# .NET MVC JavaScript MySQL AWS
Backend

E-Commerce App (Full-Stack)

Full-stack e-commerce with unit tests, validations, auth, security, responsive design, and Swagger API documentation.

Java Spring Boot React TypeScript MySQL AWS
Backend

Library Management System (Full-Stack)

Server-side rendered library system with JWT auth, Argon2 hashing (salting + peppering). Books, users, and loan management.

C# .NET MVC SSR SQLite JWT + Argon2
Backend

Todo App (Full-Stack)

Full-stack todo app with unit tests, validations, auth, security, responsive design, and Swagger API documentation.

Java Spring Boot React TypeScript MySQL AWS
Backend

E-Commerce REST API

RESTful e-commerce API with CRUD operations, role-based auth, JWT tokens, and security middleware.

Node.js Express JWT

Frontend Projects

Frontend

Pokedex + Pokemon Battles

3-page app (Pokémons, Details, Battles) using PokéAPI. Responsive design with Bootstrap and vanilla JS.

HTML CSS Bootstrap JavaScript
Frontend

Instagram Clone

5 main pages of Instagram: home, explore, reels, messages, profile. Fully responsive, built with ReactJS.

React JavaScript
Frontend

Facebook Clone

5 main sections of Facebook: home, friends, video, marketplace, gaming. Fully responsive, built with ReactJS.

React JavaScript
Mobile

AI Super App (Flutter Mobile)

AI-powered Flutter app with chatbots (Gemini + OpenAI), face analysis (emotion, age, gender recognition), and document translation tools.

Flutter Dart OpenAI Gemini
Frontend

Collaborative Todo App

Register, login, add friends, share todos. Could be extended into a Notion-like page system with TypeScript and Firebase.

TypeScript Firebase

Other Projects

Script

Lecture Content Fetcher

Logs into Arel UZEM, scans courses for downloadable lecture content, and auto-downloads new files into the appropriate local folders.

Python BeautifulSoup
Security

Vulnerability Scanner

Whois & IP lookup, path scanning, reverse lookup, OWASP Top 10 scanning (SQL injection, XSS, etc.). Generates a Markdown report with all findings.

Python OWASP
Game

Arcade Games Super App

Super app with classic arcade games re-coded in Python: Space Invaders, Snake, Pacman, Tetris, Flappy Bird.

Python Pygame
Game

turkeyInvaders

An "extremely different" version of the classic Space Invaders arcade game.

Python Pygame

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