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# Work

## Experience

- [Unblock Syria](https://unblocksyria.com) — Amsterdam, Netherlands — Founder (2026 — present)
- [Booking.com](https://www.booking.com) — Amsterdam, Netherlands — Senior Software Engineer (2022 — present)
- [Harf Labs](https://harflabs.com) — Amsterdam, Netherlands — Founder (2020 — present)
- [Spotify](https://www.spotify.com) — Amsterdam, Netherlands — Senior Software Engineer (2021 — 2022)
- [Backbase](https://www.backbase.com/platform) — Amsterdam, Netherlands — Senior Mobile Engineer (R&D) (2019 — 2021)
- [Udacity](https://www.udacity.com) — Istanbul, Türkiye — Code Reviewer and Mentor (2018 — 2019)
- [Teknasyon](https://teknasyon.com/) — Istanbul, Türkiye — Software Architect (2017 — 2019)
- [Udacity](https://www.udacity.com) — San Francisco Bay Area — Technical Project Manager (2016 — 2017)
- [ABKeys](https://abkeys.com/) — Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Digital Transformation Consultant (2008 — 2016)

## Open source

- [SwiftVLC](https://github.com/harflabs/SwiftVLC): A Swift wrapper around libVLC for iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and Mac Catalyst. Built for @Observable, async/await, and SwiftUI rather than the Objective-C and KVO of VLCKit.
- [MarqueeText](https://github.com/harflabs/MarqueeText): A lightweight SwiftUI component that scrolls text only when it overflows its container, with RTL layouts and reduced-motion handling.
- [Drops](https://github.com/omaralbeik/Drops): A micro-framework for the alerts iOS shows itself — the pasteboard copy banner, the Apple Pencil connection notice — with queueing, tap actions, and VoiceOver support.
- [SwifterSwift](https://github.com/SwifterSwift/SwifterSwift): A collection of over 500 native Swift extensions — handy methods, syntactic sugar, and performance improvements for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS.