Eren Gul

101 Chestnut Street · Berea, KY 40404 · (859) 452-8287 · gule@berea.edu

I describe myself as an international person who has well-rounded skills. Born and raised in Turkey, I moved to the United States for my college education in 2021. I am majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Economics at Berea College with a full-ride scholarship. Software development is one of my biggest passions because it lets me turn the solutions I find to problems into an accessible reality.

Experience

Student Web Developer

Berea College Marketing & Communications Department
  • Manage the official Berea College website (www.berea.edu) with 1500+ pages.
  • Develop SEO strategies to increase the website traffic by 20% from 300,000 to 360,000 per month
  • Utilize WordPress plugins and LAMP stack to improve website functionality.
August 2024 - Present

Backend Engineering & AI Research Intern

NextGen Justice
  • Collaborated with a team of interns to develop an innovative tool for fine-tuning, evaluating, and performing inference with Large Language Models using the Huggingface Transformers library, addressing the company’s need for a previously nonexistent solution.
  • Created specialized datasets and fine-tuned custom AI models, resulting in significantly improved model performance and enabling more accurate and efficient AI inference in the legal field.
  • Designed, implemented, and deployed database servers using MongoDB, and Flask for internal performance data gathering.
  • Designed and implemented metrics collection pipelines in Python, working synchronously with database servers to enhance the efficiency of fine-tuning processes.
  • Designed and implemented frontend and backend microservices for deploying the organization’s AI tool using React, Next JS, and PostgreSQL.
  • Contributed to the organization’s code base with 2000+ lines of code in 4 different repositories.
June 2024 - August 2024

Student Director

Berea College Labor Program Office
  • Managed 36+ academic departments in Berea College by using my leadership and team building skills.
  • Utilized effectice communication with professors, labor supervisors, and labor students to create and lead a network of 250+ people serving in the academic division.
  • Troubleshooted technical difficulties related to workplace IT technology and come up with efficient solutions.
  • Mediated workplace conflict with professors, supervisors, and students to maintain open communication channels within departments.
August 2023 - May 2024

Open Source Intern

Runestone Academy
  • Utilized industry standard tools and software including Git, Linux, Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in an agile and scrum workflow to contribute 780+ lines of code for Runestone Interactive servers.
  • Fixed bugs and enhanced the interactive online textbook written in PreTeXt for Open Source Software Engineering that hundreds of students will use as their main course material in CSC 426 course in Berea College.
June 2023 - August 2023

Teaching Assistant

Berea College
  • Assist the professor in teaching one of the two core classes in Computer Science major (CSC226 - Software Design & Implementation) to 50+ students.
  • Implement, unit test, debug software in Python and C++ that will be used by the students who take the class.
  • Create course materials, grade homework, and answer student questions regarding software development in Python and C++.
January 2023 - May 2023

Education

Berea College

Berea, Kentucky
Major: Computer Science
Minor: Economics

Scholarships:
Berea College Full Tuition Promise Scholarship worth $200,000+
Noyan Tanberk Scholarship worth $14,000+ / year

Relevant Courses:

Software Design & Implementation, Data Structures & Algorithms, Open Source Software Engineering, Human Centered Computing, Storytelling & Animation, Calculus I, Discrete Math, Electricity & Electronics, Intro to Autonomous Systems, Principles of Microeconomics, Principals of Macroeconomics, Financial Literacy

August 2021 - May 2025

Sirri Yircali Anatolian High School

Balikesir, Turkey

Sirri Yircali is a highly-respected educational institution located in the western part of Turkey. It is one of the top 10 high schools in Turkey and a highly-recognized institution in Europe. It only accepts the top 1.5% of the applicants from all over Turkey and offers free education to everybody who is enrolled. It is a 5-year program.

September 2016 - June 2021

Projects

Turkish Earthquake Dashboard

Built a suite of microservices including a REST API, a Python HTTP data aggregator, and a JavaScript frontend client to create a dynamic web app that updates itself every time an earthquake occurs in Turkey and visualizes key information like location and magnitude.

Technologies used: Python, Django, REST Framework, BeautifulSoup, Regex, JavasScript, SQL

https://eygul.github.io/earthquake/
https://ereny.pythonanywhere.com/quakes/

AI Translator

Developed a full stack AI translation application using T5 large language model trained on 223 million parameters that is capable of performing high quality translations between English, German, French, and Romanian.

Technologies used: Python, Transformers, Flask, JavaScript, React, Tailwind CSS, Daisy UI

https://github.com/eygul/AI_Translator

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • C++
Soft Skills:
  • Communication, Interpersonal Skills
  • Team Leadership
  • Adaptability
  • Creativity
  • Change Management

Leadership

Student Senator

Berea College Student Government Association

Write new proposals that will defend the rights of the students and create a better social environment on campus. Manage and invest approximately $45,000 with other elected senators, spend the money on the areas that will improve student life.

September 2022 - May 2023

Technical Lead

Google Developer Student Clubs

Organize events like hackatons to incentivize student engagement in Computer Science, lead 10+ on software projects for competitions.

January 2023 - Present

Interests

Aside from my passion in software development, one of my biggest hobbies is music. I play the guitar, bass and drums. I have played in various bands, orchestras, and ensemles in both Turkey and United States.

I also have a huge passion for backpacking and traveling. I love exploring the world with only my backpack, meeting new people, seeing new places and increasing my vision about this earth. This provides me with a diverse point of view that embraces the differences and grows me in a way I could never imagine. It also shows me the opportunities nobody else is aware of.