Zafer Şiar Konyar

London, United Kingdom

+44 7467 647392

siarkonyar@gmail.com

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Experience

Kuro Data AI

AI Engineering Intern

  • Building real-time data pipelines in Python with PostgreSQL, Redis and pandas, containerised with Docker.
  • Serving data through FastAPI and a Streamlit dashboard, with automated testing in GitHub Actions.
  • Source code: github.com/siarkonyar/realtime-market-data-pipeline
Aug 2026 - Present

Mirako

Mobile App Developer Intern

  • Built mobile screens, navigation, and user flows with React Native, Expo, and TypeScript.
  • Integrated API data and developed shared UI components across multiple apps in a monorepo.
  • Managed shared dependencies, resolved build issues, and produced application builds with Expo.
Apr 2025 - Sep 2025

Erguvan

Software Developer Intern

  • Built full-stack features and API layers with Next.js and TypeScript for Erguvan's ECM Terminal, a platform used by 550+ institutional users.
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024

Projects

Hercule

React Native (Expo), TypeScript, Firebase, Genkit

gethercule.app

  • Built a cross-platform fitness tracker with React Native (Expo), TypeScript, and Firebase. Published it on the App Store and Google Play, with 50 users.
  • Built an AI gym coach in public beta. A server-side Gemini agent uses Genkit and typed tools to read each user's workout history, give personal responses, and generate schema-validated training plans. Per-user token quotas and rate limits control usage.
  • Integrated Google Analytics and PostHog to analyse app usage and user behaviour. Implementing in-app subscriptions with RevenueCat.

Hackathon Winner Project

Python, Pydantic

github.com/siarkonyar/Tech-Europe-Hackathon

  • Co-developed a multi-agent system. Agents exchange information to diagnose and repair broken API integrations.
  • Built the agent that calls API providers when diagnosis fails. It gathers missing details and returns validated findings so the repair agent can continue.
  • Won a EUR 300 team prize awarded by Pydantic founder Samuel Colvin at the {Tech: Europe} Agentic AI Hackathon.

A Way Out

Swift, Screen Time API, Core NFC

awayout.app

  • Built and published a free iOS focus app in Swift. It locks distracting apps until the user scans a physical NFC tag.
  • Used Apple's Screen Time API to block apps at the OS level, and Core NFC to read the unlock tag.

Crypto Transaction Batching

Solidity, Blockchain

github.com/siarkonyar/001349934-FYP_Code

  • Final-year project: wrote Solidity smart contracts for a decentralised app that batches and schedules crypto transactions to decrease their carbon footprint.
  • Evaluated how different transaction grouping strategies affect gas cost and overall energy use.

Customs Declaration Tool

Ikra Logistics

beyantara-production.up.railway.app

  • Built a tool used by Ikra Logistics' customs department to reduce repetitive manual work. It summarises customs declarations and retrieves UK government tariff data through an API to help complete declarations.

Education

University of Greenwich

BSc Computer Science, First-Class Honours

2023 - 2026

Technical Skills

Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Swift, Solidity

Frameworks: React, Next.js, React Native (Expo), Spring Boot, Tailwind CSS

Tools & DevOps: Git, GitHub Actions, Docker, dbt, Prisma, Firebase, EAS, Celery

Data & Databases: SQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Firestore, Redis

Cloud: Azure, Vercel, Cloudflare

Spoken Languages: English (Fluent, C2), Turkish (Native)

AI-assisted Development: Codex (CLI), Claude Code (CLI), Cursor