Meet...Mert Gerdan!

What's your Major/Minor? Why did you choose that major?

I'm a junior studying Computer Science and I currently don't have a minor! I got into computer science in high school when I joined the school's robotics team, and it really snowballed from there. I just like the scalability that software brings.

What courses are you mentoring for this semester?

I've mentored for EECS 203 in the past, I'm currently mentoring for EECS 280 this semester.

What internships have you had? What have you learned from them?

I've had two previous technical internships back in Turkey (where I'm from), one was for a dental startup where I built a simplified 3D modeling tool for dentists and the other for a mid-sized IoT company where I created a data pipeline to collect high quality Turkish audio data to be used for transcript generation and auto-captioning purposes. I've gotten a lot of experience in building software from the ground up, and now I'm looking forward to see how large codebases interact.

What are your graduation plans?

I'll be graduating April 2023, and will be heading to Seattle as a software engineer.

Fun fact about yourself?

I once ran a marathon on a dare in 2019!