Efe Demir

Experience

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  Nestlé

  Jul 2018 - Jul 2018

  Strategic Business Unit Intern

  + Composed a competitor brand segmentation report for the top 50 companies under chilled dairy products category, for each zone, by researching product assortments + Completed a competitor brand analysis presentation after analyzing competitor premiumization strategies in 4 different industries, pinpointing patterns and disparities + Investigated a 20M+ budget for June Primary Cost Actuals, searching for abnormalities + Evaluated profitability of top 15 bottled water companies by analyzing annual reports Show less

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  UBC Student Housing and Hospitality Services

  Aug 2021 - May 2022

  Residence Advisor

  + Augmented the residence experience by using a peer-to-peer approach to support wellness, safety and security, community building and personal development for residents+ Facilitated connections between residents and campus resources+ Enhanced skills in leadership, teamwork, conflict management, event planning, community development, and administrative duties

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  Hootsuite

  Jan 2022 - Sept 2022

  Mobile Software Developer

  + Learned about iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) development by practicing Clean Architecture and leveraging libraries such as SwiftUI, UIKit, and RxSwift for bug fixes, new features, and retrofits while ensuring QA through unit & snapshot testing+ Optimized team productivity by running sprint planning, grooming, and demo meetings as Scrum Master while keeping work items and priorities aligned with quarterly plans and PM input, which increased story points completed per sprint by 15%+ Led the Pendo SDK integration as Epic Champion, ensuring iOS & Android feature parity and facilitating cross-team collaboration which allowed the successful completion of the project within 2 weeks+ Managed new iOS app releases via the App Store and monitored post-release app performance with Firebase to ensure customer satisfaction and maintain 99.5% crash-free users KPI Show less

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  UBC Sauder School of Business

  Aug 2022 - Apr 2023

  COMM 394 Environment, Society, and Government - 91%+ Strengthened key course-related concepts like government policy analysis, economic efficiency, ethics, fairness, and politics by assisting professor through grading debates and exams for 142 students+ Enhanced teaching, time-management, and organizational skills through balancing full-time education and overseeing three sections of this course+ Held office hours prior to exams and answered questions by email to support student learning Show less

  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Aug 2022 - Apr 2023
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  VRIFY

  Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

  IOS Developer

  + Applied Swift event-handling & async frameworks to tackle concurrency issues, boosting content download speed by 200%+ Enhanced autoplay functionality across various slide types using download listeners, which resolved 15 edge case bugs+ Reduced tech debt by purging 40+ orphaned DTOs and unused analytics logs, rectifying 100+ broken SwiftUI previews, and addressing 50+ Swift 6 warnings across various VMs, services, and views, which significantly increased code sustainability+ Conducted 3 SPIKEs/investigations, the most noteworthy and client-desired feature being the exploration of background blur for meetings; developed a working POC utilizing the Amazon Chime SDK for iOS Show less

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  Paradigm Testing

  Oct 2024 - now

  Full Stack Developer
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  Lululemon

  Dec 2024 - now

  IOS Software Developer in Test