Ali Colak
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Credentials
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The Non-Technical Skills of Effective Data Scientists
LinkedInSep, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
HackBytes Hackathon Certificate
CertopusJul, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Software Engineering Immersive Remote | 420 Hours
General AssemblyMay, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Interviewing for Product Management Jobs
LinkedInJan, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
Creative Department Internship
five94' Marketing SolutionsDec, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project
CourseraDec, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Project Planning: Putting It All Together
CourseraDec, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Foundations of Project Management
CourseraOct, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Brand and Product Management
CourseraJan, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
YouTube Music Certification
GoogleMar, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
HTML & CSS
W3C
Experience
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Techmade
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Italy
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Nov 2022 - Present
• Developed user interfaces with modern JavaScript frameworks, HTML5, and CSS, converting legacy class based components to function based components • Contributed to design and development of client and server database applications • Implemented Git pipelines to automate build, testing, and deployment processes, streamlining software development and ensuring code quality • Developed user interfaces with modern JavaScript frameworks, HTML5, and CSS, converting legacy class based components to function based components • Contributed to design and development of client and server database applications • Implemented Git pipelines to automate build, testing, and deployment processes, streamlining software development and ensuring code quality
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General Assembly
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United States
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Animation and Post-production
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer (Fellow)
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Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
• Collaborated with teams of developers in a project based immersive program to design, implement, and deploy scalable web applications • Developed proficiency in various storage systems such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, as well as libraries like the React Framework, in a project-based environment. Additionally, I used Javascript, CSS, HTML, and Python. • Utilized software development best practices in full stack web development in React, Node, MongoDB, Express, and documentation, utilizing version control, security/authentication, and api’s. Show less
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Red Bull
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Austria
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Food and Beverage Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Student Marketeer
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May 2022 - Feb 2023
• Drove sales through strategic business development by building relations with vendors about distributing Redbull. • Utilized knowledge of cultural happenings around Chicago to develop sampling initiatives, resulting to increased awareness of new products and event support. • Created youth-centric campaigns that led to multiple 2000 can distribution milestones by developing sampling events for student organizations • Represented Red Bull brand personality through everyday interactions with young adults, resulting in 15% average new consumer consumption per mission • Designed roadmap for “Who Needs Wings” campaign for music festivals such as Lollapalooza; led to multiple successful can distribution missions with cans of over 15,000 in each mission Show less
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Purple Photo Group
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United States
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Photography
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1 - 100 Employee
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Event Photographer
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Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
• Designed and collaborated with the SpotmyPhotos engineering team to develop a functional UI to "Spot" photos by gathering feedback from over 100 events and photographers. • Lead a team of over five photographers at events to make sure clients were satisfied with the photography throughout the event. • Leveraged expertise in professional digital photography equipment and workflows, leading to a turnaround time of 24 hours. • Designed and collaborated with the SpotmyPhotos engineering team to develop a functional UI to "Spot" photos by gathering feedback from over 100 events and photographers. • Lead a team of over five photographers at events to make sure clients were satisfied with the photography throughout the event. • Leveraged expertise in professional digital photography equipment and workflows, leading to a turnaround time of 24 hours.
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Grammy U
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Ambassador
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Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
• Spread awareness of Grammy U to the University of Illinois - Chicago campus by setting up presentation days with professors. • Spread awareness of Grammy U to the University of Illinois - Chicago campus by setting up presentation days with professors.
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Herman Miller
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United States
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Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Digital Product Manager Intern
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May 2022 - Aug 2022
• Led a team of three to develop an international pilot internship program for MillerKnoll in Mexico • Improved Digital Asset Management (DAM) efficiency by developing filter methods tailored to company's in-use needs' for hermanmiller, dwr, and hay, saving MillerKnoll over $10,000 in storage space • Supported a data migration between HermanMiller and Knoll and synchronized DUNS numbers in Salesforce to make sure brand accounts were correct and easy to access • Validated site launches in JIRA pre-launch for millerknoll.com, hermanmiller.com, and hay.com with a protocol driven approach Show less
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ReConnect
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United Kingdom
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Philanthropy
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-Founder & Product Manager
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Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
• Created and launched ReConnect, an app that lets you put in ingredients you have at your disposal and find recipes. • Joined a startup accelerator program to build out the business plan, utilizing the lean startup methodology to build, test, and learn. • Led MVP testing to converse with over 200 people about their experience with cooking and observed their interactions with the app. • Managed product ideation, research, planning, prototyping • Created and launched ReConnect, an app that lets you put in ingredients you have at your disposal and find recipes. • Joined a startup accelerator program to build out the business plan, utilizing the lean startup methodology to build, test, and learn. • Led MVP testing to converse with over 200 people about their experience with cooking and observed their interactions with the app. • Managed product ideation, research, planning, prototyping
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Fellow
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Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Quarter Zero is an incubator for high school students to grow their businesses. Students can come in as a founder or a free agent. Over the course of the incubator, we develop a product & pitch it. - Cofounder of Letscook, an app that lets you put in ingredients you have at your disposal and get recipes. -Led MVP testing to converse with over 200 people about their experience with cooking and observed their interactions with the app. -Designed the logo & app interface. -Conducted market research to see what people did when hungry. Show less
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LetsCook
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Spain
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Food and Beverage Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Manager
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Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
• Led the product development of “LetsCook” app that allowed users to find recipes by implementing the food items users had • Joined a startup accelerator program, taking the product through multiple life cycles, to build out the business plan, utilizing the lean startup methodology to build, test, and learn • Led MVP testing to converse with over 200 people about their experience with cooking and observed their interactions with the app • Completely redesigned in June 2023 and used OpenAI to generate recipes along with an AI generated image Show less
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Education
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2018 - 2022
University of Illinois at Chicago
Bachelor's degree, Product Management, Marketing -
2014 - 2016
Illinois Institute of Technology
Progamming, Robotics, 12 -
2023 - 2023
Amazon Web Services
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2023 - 2023
General Assembly
Computer Software Engineering
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