Dilek Akçay
I graduated from Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2019. While I was studying undergraduate, I also did a double major with Computer Engineering. After my graduation, I worked as an intern at HAVELSAN which produces Technologies in the fields of defense, informatics, and cyber security for a couple of months. I received general Linux training and did a project using Qt Creator and C++, which I will use in my first job. I started to work as a Research and Development Engineer at TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), one of the main R&D institutions in Turkey. I was developing an app about military satellite communication systems by using C and C++ programming languages in Qt Creator in the Communication Intelligence unit, which has 1st-degree confidentiality. I was working on increasing the design efficiency by using the software architecture methods in the codes. At the same time, we got down to the field in the capital of Turkey, Ankara, periodically to integrate our projects into the system. As time goes by, I began to wonder how the libraries I used while programming on Qt were written, their features, and research their background and functioning. Then I was tempted to be the one to write these modules, therefore I started looking for job ads at The Qt Company and applied for my current job ad. As a result of my successful interviews, I was accepted to the job and moved to Finland. Currently, I have been working here for more than 8 months as one of the people who are responsible for creating the new engine of Data Visualization module.