Volkan Kaya

Hello!

Full Stack Developer

About Me

I am a Full Stack Developer from the UK. I graduted with a degree in Mathematics. My favorite technologies include Django, Git and Twitter-Bootstrap.

I work for Bedford College, currently building and maintaining websites for multiple colleges.

Portfolio

Demo Landing Page

Demo Landing Page

  • Template landing page which can be used to check the interest in a product or service
  • Django, Sqlite, Bootstrap, jQuery used to create a responsive website with a database to store data
  • Uploaded on Heroku

Kaya Construction (Family Business)

Kaya Construction

  • Responsive website with the services they provide, previous projects and contact information
  • Created website using Twitter-Bootstrap and Font Awesome
  • Google’s Map API used for showing the location of their office

AngularJS Todo list

AngularJS Todo

  • Responsive todo list in AngularJS with multiple lists
  • Bower, Grunt, npm used with ngBoilerplate

Stock of the Day

Stock of the Day

  • A stock picker based on the technical indicator RSI (Relative Strength Index)
  • Created in PHP using the Laravel framework
  • Used Yahoo! Finance API for data
  • TradingView widget used for the graphs

Tic-Tac-Toe

tic-tac-toe

  • Javascript used for game play
  • Uploaded on GitHub Pages
Experience

Bedford College - Junior Web Developer

September 2015 - Present

  • Worked on a web-based E-Learning platform for over 17,000 users

  • Debugged issues in the codebase

  • Created bespoke open source software for over 20 large institutions

  • Performed technical support and assisted customers one-on-one


FX/Derivate Securites - Trading Partnership

September 2013

  • Trade: FX - Majors. CFD - Commodities, Equities, Bonds & Stock indices

  • FX technical analysis - Momentum Oscillators: Stochastics, MACD and RSI. Trend: Displaced EMA. Pivot identification: Fibonacci retracement/extension.

  • CFD technical analysis - Volume based: VWAP and VWMA. Momentum: RSI

  • FX & CFD psychological analysis - Support/ Resistance and Breakouts.

  • FX & CFD fundamental analysis - Exploiting changes in the micro/macro environment for short-term speculation trading.

  • Risk Management - Hedging, portfolio diversification, SL/TP and MFE/MAE analysis.

  • Strategic execution (CTP) - our executions are determined by a rigorous system of conditional and confluent, fundamental, technical and psychological indicators


Education

Sheffield Hallam University 2011 – 2014

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics

Huxlow Science College 2009 – 2011

A Levels - Mathematics - A, Further Mathematics - B and Economics - C

Skills

Frameworks, Tools and Languages

Python (PEP8), Django, JavaScript, AngularJS, jQuery, PHP, Laravel, SQL, postgreSQL, HTML, CSS, Git, GitHub, Heroku, Twitter-Bootstrap

General Development Concepts

Object Oriented Programming, MVC (Model-View-Controller), TDD (Test Driven Development)

Interests

Currently one of my favourite interests is codewars (codewars.com/users/volkandkaya) it is a great way to practice language syntax and it is extremely addictive.

In my spare time I enjoy the gym, books and strategy games.

CV
Contact

Call me: +44 (0)7805 993106

Send me an Email: volkan.kaya@hotmail.co.uk

Take a peek at my code on Github: github.com/volkandkaya

Connect with me on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/volkandkaya