Sinan
To lead from the front. To spearhead innovation and cut through noise to find what matters.
About
BSc Computer Science with a Year in Industry, Royal Holloway
A year writing production C++20 on the Software Tooling Team
HackSussex 2023 and Focusrite Company-Wide Hackathon
I am a Computer Science graduate from Royal Holloway, University of London, where I finished with First Class Honours, and this autumn I begin an MSc in Advanced Computing at King's College London. Along the way I spent a year on placement as a C++ Software Developer at Focusrite.
Regardless of the domain, whether it is internal C++ libraries and tools or full-stack web apps, I care deeply about building software properly. To me, this involves being meticulous with testing, like when I uncovered a faulty mock setup in a primary test case and volunteered to fix it during my placement. I believe in designing systems thoroughly before writing code, and I never hesitate to rebuild a hackathon prototype in a faster language because the idea deserved it.
I played lacrosse for Royal Holloway's Men's 1 team, and competed on the university's main Overwatch esports team, where we won Varsity 2026 and placed top 32 in the UK for NSE. I am a big fan of strategy games and spend a lot of time reading about history. I also run a YouTube channel where I organise events with viewers and edit videos, and I'm a keen poker player with two tournament wins under my belt.
Projects
2D Audio Ray Tracer
A geometric acoustics simulator built in C++ from scratch with no external libraries. Energy-carrying rays are traced through successive specular reflections until their energy falls below an audibility threshold, with ray-to-wall intersections solved analytically using Cramer's rule and an epsilon guard on the ray parameter to eliminate self-intersection at bounce points. Per-surface absorption drives multiplicative energy decay across bounces, and listener arrivals are detected by closest approach along each segment rather than at its endpoints. A Python stage converts arrival times and energies into a 44.1 kHz room impulse response, then convolves it with dry audio to render the simulated space audibly. An evolution of my Focusrite hackathon prototype, developed into my final year dissertation project.
2D Audio Ray Tracer Prototype
Won the "All-Winners Award" at a Focusrite company-wide hackathon with a ray tracer simulator built in Python. Simulated how sound bounces off surfaces in a 2D environment. The concept proved strong enough to become the foundation of my final year project.
Stock Price Predictor
Built during a Focusrite hackathon. A Python tool for analysing and predicting stock price movements using random forest regression, exploring data processing and forecasting techniques applied to financial market data.
Hand Gesture Music Generator
Built during a Focusrite hackathon. Uses OpenCV for webcam input and MediaPipe for real-time hand tracking, calculating finger "openness" by normalising finger length against a reference hand size. Gesture data was mapped to sound parameters, but the hackathon ended before I could connect it to the C++ audio plugin a teammate had built alongside it.
Gourmet Restaurant Platform
Led a team of 9 as Scrum Master to deliver a full-stack restaurant web application. Engineered the backend with Flask and PostgreSQL while contributing to frontend development. Ran bi-weekly client demos and refined the product through iterative feedback.
AI Radio Station
Built in 24 hours and won HackSussex 2023 (Best In-Person Hack). Scraped BBC News articles with BeautifulSoup, fed them into the OpenAI API to generate a radio show script, then used ElevenLabs for text-to-speech playback. A full pipeline from raw data to spoken audio output.
View on GitHub →Airline Load Factor Forecasting
Competed in Hack AI 2023, applying time-series forecasting to predict airline load factors for 2022 using historical data from 2017 to 2021. Worked with real-world datasets under competition constraints.
Discord Receipt Reader Bot
A Discord bot that reads and processes receipt images to help split group expenses. Integrates image processing with Discord's API to extract and share cost breakdowns.
Bank Management System
A C++ console application simulating core banking operations. Built to develop fundamentals in object-oriented design, linked list data structures, and file-based data management.
View on GitHub →Experience
MSc Advanced Computing
King's College London
Beginning in autumn 2026, following a First Class BSc at Royal Holloway.
BSc Computer Science (Year in Industry)
Royal Holloway, University of London
Graduated with First Class Honours, having achieved First Class in both first and second year. My final year dissertation was a 2D audio ray tracing engine written in C++ and Python.
C++ Software Developer (Placement)
Focusrite · King's Cross, London
Worked on the Software Tooling Team, maintaining and extending internal C++20 libraries powering multiple generations of Scarlett audio hardware. Expanded library support for legacy devices and upcoming products, wrote and extended test coverage using Catch2, and supported CI/CD migration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions. Helped design a new internal engineering tool using Tauri and Svelte, contributing from system design and story mapping through to Sprint 0 implementation. Facilitated Agile ceremonies including stand-ups and retrospectives. Won the company-wide hackathon "All-Winners Award" with a 2D audio ray tracer prototype.
First Year Rep, then Vice President
RHUL Computing Society
Started as First Year Representative, organising events and helping run Royal Hackaway v6. Elected Vice President the following year, where I helped manage the society and supported the committee in planning events including Royal Hackaway v7. Adopted a scrum-like management approach for tasks to improve productivity across the team.
Data Assistant, Point of Care Testing
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · London
Spent a week with the POCT team at St Thomas' Hospital, observing how diagnostic devices connect to hospital data systems. Helped export and format test result data including COVID-19 cases, and cross-checked POCT data with lab results to flag inconsistencies for clinical review.
Click to zoomFounder and President, CS Club
Mill Hill County High School
Founded and ran the Computer Science Club during sixth form. Organised weekly coding sessions using Python, focused on logical thinking and problem-solving. Also participated in the British Informatics Olympiad and helped interview a new teacher for the CS department.
Contact
I am always open to conversations about engineering, opportunities, or interesting problems. If you are building something ambitious or looking for someone who brings both technical depth and creative thinking, I would be glad to hear from you.