Bora Akyuz

Hi I'm Bora. This is the website where I'll store my personal projects and non-regular blog entries. When I'm not building software, I like spending time reading fiction (Kurt Vonnegut is my favourite), going to local gigs (usually post-punk) and traveling around the world.

I'm currently a back-end engineer at Bloomberg LP. I've previously done software engineering internships at American Express, MLH Fellowship (with AWS) and Bloomberg LP. If you have a software idea that I could be interested in, you can email me at: "tboraakyuz (at) gmail (dot) com".

Stuff I've worked on

thescene - 2024

Created a platform where artists and bands can create simple 'cards' that they can link to when connecting with other professionals in the industry.
Used by a bunch of artists and bands in London, I've also put on a few gigs to promote it.
Retired it in 2025 to focus on another music-related project.

TDK-12 - 2024

Scraped the latest edition (12th) of the official Turkish dictionary using a concurrency-based approach, and aggregated all 99,182 definitions into a JSON file.
Created an extremely light-weight minimalist version of the official dictionary website with sqlite3, hosted here.
Additional projects made using the dictionary are hosted in the GitHub repo.

LeetTab (Leetcode Dashboard) - 2023

A start-page extension that shows your upcoming interviews and Leetcode stats, for Chrome and Firefox.
Over 100 active users and an average of 5.0/5.0 in reviews at the time of writing. It (somehow) ended up on Chinese pirate websites which is a testament to its usefulness.

Seeker (Artist Scraping) - 2023

Scraping over 10k artist data from Spotify daily, storing and charting this data in a desktop app available in MacOS, Windows, Linux (Ubuntu).
Early access version was given to artist managers in London. The current version is used as an in-house tool at thescene.

Bandsoc Booking Page - 2023

Heavily used during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Replaced the spreadsheet that the soc was using with this platform, where members make accounts and buy credits to book practice room slots.
Led to an increase in profit of more than 50%, and eased the role of the treasurer since they didn't have to check if the money is sent for each person anymore.

Warwick Band Society Website - 2022

The homepage was done using NextJS with typescript.
This set the foundation to build the booking page, which was a project bigger in scale.

Warwick Accommodation Suggester - 2021

My first solo project, built during the summer of 2021, after my first year at the university of warwick.
I used vanilla JS and no CSS frameworks so I could learn those better before diving into frameworks.

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