Umut Ozan Gorkem

Experience

• IT Support Professional

  Sept 2025 – Present

  University of South Wales · Cardiff, UK

  • Resolve software, network and hardware incidents for staff and students across campus as first point of contact.
  • Document recurring fixes in the team knowledge base so common issues are closed faster.

• Summer Intern

  June 2026 – Sept 2026

  Mercedes-Benz Türk IT, Global ECOC Team · Aksaray, Turkey

  • Wrote BDD test scenarios in Cucumber/Gherkin with Java step definitions for the team’s automation suite.
  • Refactored existing scenarios to remove duplicated steps and make failures easier to trace.

• Student Lab Lead

  USW Robotics Lab

  • Led the student team building a chess-playing robotic arm, integrating chess-engine move selection with the arm’s motion control in Python.

• Telemetry Developer

  Formula Student USW

  • Wrote C++ software to read and plot live sensor data from the team’s race car.

Projects

• 3D Reconstruction on a Budget

  Final-year project (Oct 2026 – May 2027). Benchmarking 3D Gaussian Splatting against the feed-forward VGGT model on self-captured scenes, measuring reconstruction quality, latency and memory across three hardware tiers: cloud GPU, a 4 GB laptop GPU and CPU. Evaluates one low-cost optimisation (splat pruning, quantisation or input downscaling) on the most constrained tier, delivered with a reproducible evaluation harness.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • nerfstudio
  • gsplat
  • VGGT

• MeetingBrief

  AI-powered meeting-briefing SaaS. Connects to Google Calendar and generates briefing reports on attendees and agenda ahead of each meeting. My own product, now past the MVP stage.

  • Next.js 14
  • Supabase
  • Clerk
  • Stripe

• HyChef

  Three-tier food-safety SaaS for UK restaurants. A native Android app handles weekly food diaries, temperature checks, and PDF reporting against SFBB (Safer Food, Better Business) and HACCP standards, backed by a Laravel API and a Next.js dashboard.

  • Laravel 12
  • PHP 8.2
  • Sanctum
  • Stripe Cashier
  • Next.js 15
  • React 19
  • shadcn/ui
  • Kotlin
  • Jetpack Compose
  • Room
  • Hilt

• Nagomi

  Google Play↗ (opens in a new tab)

  Anime-themed matching app, live on Google Play. Tinder-style card swiping, an anime catalogue powered by the Jikan API, and a quiz bank that drives matches.

  • React Native
  • Expo
  • TypeScript
  • Firebase / Firestore
  • NativeWind
  • Zustand

• Iron Pilgrim

  Steam↗ (opens in a new tab)

  A top-down roguelike autoshooter where you pilot a growing war-train instead of a character. Builds come from wagon composition: attack wagons fire automatically, buff wagons react to in-game events, and hidden buff pairings trigger Resonance mutations. Every wagon adds power but also lengthens your hitbox and turning radius, so strength costs control. Built in Unity by a three-person indie team.

  • Unity
  • C#

Skills

Languages

TypeScript · Python · Java · C++ · Kotlin · PHP · C# · SQL

Frameworks

Next.js · React · React Native / Expo · Laravel · Jetpack Compose · Unity

Tools & Platforms

Git · Linux · Docker · Supabase · Firebase · Stripe · MySQL · Qiskit

Testing

Cucumber · Gherkin · BDD test automation

Education

Outside code

I co-host The Unthinkers (opens in a new tab), a philosophy podcast on existentialism and the philosophy of mind, and I play guitar, harmonica, and bağlama.

Contact

I’m open to software engineering roles and interesting projects. The fastest way to reach me is [email protected].

• GitHub (opens in a new tab)
• LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)