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ŞURA KARAALİ
TR

Creating software
is fun, isn’t it?

Şura Karaali, Computer engineer, Istanbul

I’m Şura. I build mobile apps and websites in Istanbul, and I’m just as happy doing business analysis: clear requirements, Agile, and a method the whole team can follow.

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A pixel-art illustration of Şura at her laptop, chin in hand, with React and Next.js windows floating around her
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A pixel-art desk: a laptop, a stack of books, a plant and a mug

Where I’ve been so far.

Experience

Internships

  1. Feb 2026 – May 2026

    Product Development Intern (Mobile App Development)

    Worked on a corporate mobile product with the team: analysed requirements, built features, and chased down bugs, with a focus on performance, accessibility and sign-in.

    Logo Yazılım
    Gebze, Turkey (remote)

  2. Jan 2026 – Feb 2026

    Computer Engineering Intern

    Kept the office running: day-to-day IT support, Outlook headaches, RAM upgrades and printer setups.

    YASA Holding
    Istanbul, Turkey

  3. Jan 2025 – Feb 2025

    Computer Engineering Intern

    Helped the IT team with the daily technical work of a large automotive company, and wrote things down so the next person wouldn’t have to ask.

    Mercedes-Benz / HAS Otomotiv
    Istanbul, Turkey

  4. Jul 2024 – Aug 2024

    Product Development Intern (Mobile App Development)

    Built iOS screens in Swift and SwiftUI, fixed bugs, and learned how a Scrum team actually runs week to week.

    FMSS Bilişim Teknoloji
    Istanbul, Turkey

Education

  1. 2022 – 2026

    Computer Engineering

    Taught in English.

    Doğuş University, Faculty of Engineering

  2. 2021 – 2022

    English Preparatory Programme

    Doğuş University

Some things I’ve made, and shipped.

Selected work

Engineer by training, phone-screen person by choice.

About me

I studied computer engineering at Doğuş University, in a programme taught entirely in English, and graduated in 2026.

Since then I’ve done two product development internships in mobile, at Logo Yazılım and FMSS Bilişim Teknoloji: Agile teams, Git, pull requests, code reviews, the whole routine. On the side I build websites for clients with Next.js, and two of them are live right now.

Before that, internships at Mercedes-Benz / HAS Otomotiv and YASA Holding put me on the IT side of things: fixing what broke, writing it down, and talking to the people who actually use the systems. Good practice for building software nobody has to think about.

Based in
Istanbul, Turkey
Education
Computer Engineering, Doğuş University
Languages
Turkish (native), English (B2)
Focus
Mobile, Frontend, Web

What I build with

React Native, Expo and Swift on the phone; Next.js, React and TypeScript on the web.

How I like to work

In a team, with pull requests, code reviews and a board everyone actually looks at.

Listen. Build.
Poke at it. Ship.

How I work

  1. 01 Listen

    I read the brief, ask the slightly awkward questions early, and write down what “done” looks like before touching the keyboard.

  2. 02 Build

    React Native or Next.js, in TypeScript, with components small enough that future me can still read them.

  3. 03 Poke at it

    Accessibility, performance, the odd edge cases. On a real phone too, because the simulator is far too polite.

  4. 04 Ship

    A pull request, a review, a release. Then I watch what people actually do with it and fix whatever they trip on.

What’s in my toolbox.

What I work with

Let’s get in touch.

Just an email away

Write to me

I’m in Istanbul and open to mobile and frontend roles, and to freelance websites with Next.js. I read every email.

surakaraali@gmail.com · GitHub (opens in a new tab) · LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)