Eren Tasdemir

• Worked in the Agile team that owns İşCep, the mobile banking app of the largest private bank in Turkey, with more than 10 million recurring users.
• Owned several new features and maintained existing ones, including critical flows; took part in refining designs and business logic, and was responsible for shipping several releases.
• Built new features in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose while maintaining Java/XML views, using Dagger for dependency injection, MVVM and Test-Driven Development across a multi-module app built on Retrofit, Coroutines and Flows.
• Took a lead role in the migration to Jetpack Compose with a focus on accessibility, mentoring teammates through pair programming.
• Identified and fixed a recurring bug responsible for 16% of all crashes in the latest version.

• Worked within the team behind Nays, an e-wallet application, owning an Android app end-to-end: requirements, UX design and testing.
• Built with Kotlin, Jetpack Compose and Koin, Firebase for backend services and JUnit for testing, following Clean Architecture and MVVM.
• Delivered a publish-ready MVP by the end of the 20-day internship.

• Built a Web3 application that lets parents deposit cryptocurrency into their dependants’ wallets, with a React front end and a Solidity smart contract on Ethereum.
• The project was rated the best across the entire intern cohort.

• Dissertation: From Plug to Backend: Investigating the Attack Surface of the EV Charging Stack. Designed an automated penetration-testing framework for the SLAC protocol that detects buffer and stack overflows/underflows and illegal state transitions, with bulk reporting. Built in Python and tested against implementations in C, C++, Python and Java.
• Built a RAG-based LLM assistant from scratch with automated scoring against golden answers (Python, PyTorch), and a 0→1 image classifier with TorchVision.
• Split focus between AI/ML and cybersecurity, including AI security and privacy.

• ABET-accredited programme taught entirely in English.
• Graduation project: Investigation of Electro-Tactile Feedback Mechanisms for a VR Glove. Designed and built the hardware, wrote the microcontroller firmware in C, a C# driver for OpenVR integration, and a Unity 3D demo game.
• Ranked 1,549th of 3.3 million candidates in the 2020 national university entrance exam.

Contributed to the hardware design converting analogue capacitance readings into digital signals sent over BLE via C++ firmware, and wrote a Windows driver in C++ that makes the device act as an Xbox game controller.

• Elected by the votes of 42 local committees representing more than 8,000 members across Europe.
• Supervised four leaders, each with their own coordinators and members.
• Responsible for data management, IT infrastructure, GDPR compliance and the conduct of the association’s events.