About Trent:

Me in kuzguncuk, istanbul

My interests include:

  • Software Engineering
  • Travel/Culture/Geopolitics
  • Cycling, but I just sold my bike :(

Things I've built:

  • Plywood canoe
  • 3 Story tree house
  • Internet banking product that moves a lot of money at a lot of banks

I like to travel and I've lived in:

  • 🇺🇸 Austin
  • 🇷🇺 Moscow
  • 🇹🇷 İstanbul
Me as a child

Career:

I started programming at 15. I was a skate photographer and wanted to share my skates photos, so I made a digital magazine with Macromedia Flash. This required using actionscript a language based on javascript. Later I got a job at my University as a web developer for online courses. I led the development of the first accredited online course that was also a video game.

Later I learned php and mysql and built a few websites. Before moving to Austin, Texas and working at a few startups with ruby on rails. Eventually I joined Malauzai Software, a fintech company that builds internet banking solutions. I eventually got promoted to team lead on the web/internet banking team where I introduced nodejs/react to the company, and later transitioned to software architect over two teams.

Now I'm messing about quite a bit with openai's models. We'll see where that takes me.