Halil İbrahim Öztürk Halil Öztürk

About

Halil İbrahim Öztürk

I’m a fourth-year computer engineering student at İzmir Institute of Technology, graduating in June 2027. I’m still at university, but I can’t wait to start working: working on real projects and solving real engineering problems is what makes me happy.

How I started

I started coding in my first year of high school, in 2019. The pandemic kept me at home, coding gave me something to do, and nothing else gave me the same joy. I started by learning to make games in Unity. Before that I’d written a little block-based robotics code at Deneyap, but I didn’t really know much.

After a while it bothered me that everything in Unity just worked, like magic, and I wanted to understand the details. I followed MIT’s introduction to programming course on YouTube and tried writing my own code in Python and C. Around the same time I found a YouTube channel that made games and animations in p5.js, where you work much closer to the pixels than in Unity, and I spent a lot of time there: first a snake game, then things like tower defense.

Then I found The Cherno, who teaches C++ on YouTube, and that’s where I found myself in computer engineering. My foundation was laid around the end of middle school and the start of high school, and every video and every problem I ran into along the way pulled me further into this field.

What I’m looking for

Internships and new-grad roles from 2027, in systems, embedded, game or backend development. I’m most at home in C++ and Python, and comfortable across the stack when a project needs it. I’m open to relocating.

Experience

  • ASELSAN, Embedded Systems Intern, Aug – Sep 2026. A trace-driven CPU scheduler simulator in C++20 (more here), and an AGENTS.md generator for AI coding agents. My first time working at one of Türkiye’s biggest companies, and there are a lot of people there.
  • TechNarts, Software Engineering Intern, Jun – Sep 2025. Built Topluluk on my own. A growing, startup-like place; the flexible working hours were great, and it was much more relaxed than a big company.
  • Cengaver Rover Team, IYTE, Electronics Team Member, Oct 2024 – Jun 2025. STM32 firmware for the rover’s motor controllers over CAN. My teammates really wanted to build things and place well in competitions, and getting to know them was good for my network.
  • Google Developer Student Clubs, IYTE, Technical Core Member, Oct 2023 – Jun 2024. Helped run technical workshops and speaker sessions for 100+ students. My first role in a community; meeting new people made it easier to settle into a university I’d just started.

Education

  • İzmir Institute of Technology, B.Sc. Computer Engineering, expected June 2027. GPA 3.73 / 4.00.
  • Ankara Pursaklar Science High School, graduated 2023.
  • Deneyap, T3 Foundation, graduated 2020.

Outside of code

When I’m away from the computer, I’m usually playing basketball, chess or table tennis.

Languages

Turkish (native), English (B2).