Fırat Kart
Web Developer, Software Engineer, and Architect in Cupertino, California
Firat received his MS and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has served as a teaching assistant and a graduate student researcher.
He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Research interests include distributed systems, computer networks, Service Oriented Architectures, Web Services, database transactions, and automated supply chain management, e-healthcare architectures and protocols.
While undergrad, he worked for Mobilsoft as intern/part-time during summer of 2002 and 2003. In 2004, he moved to USA for advanced graduate studies. In USA, during summer of 2006, he worked at QAD as a software engineer. He was not only helping the development of their project, but also represented QAD at Detroit for AIAG meeting about Inventory Visibility and Interoperability (IV&I;) Project. It was an honor for him to represent the company away from headquarters even while he was an intern. Summer of 2007, He worked at Citrix Online. He was working on a very exciting project that involves a major architecture shift, involving investigating of distributed cache products such as Oracle Coherence and Terracotta. Performance results from these products provided necessary information to the company regarding best use of them. Later he focused on Amazon Simple Storage Service, for media storage of video recordings of the GotoMeeting product.
Academic life, he was teaching Network Computing (ECE155B) class with Prof. Louise Moser, 2005-2008. He has received outstanding TA award during Winter of 2006 among all Engineering Teaching Assistants. ECE155B class covers Java Networking technologies from applets to web services involving projects such as Medicare Application, Supply Chain Management, and recently distributed healthcare application.
Joined Tibco in 2008, currently working on event-based solutions built on 'in-memory' data management systems, ActiveSpaces. Experience in development of distributed systems, many POCs with customers and adding new features to product is what he enjoys most.
Joined Apple, Inc in 2016, working on Apple Services, Server architecture. Services owned handles billions of Apple devices and how they are configured for client side features, and rolling them out.
For more information about my research, please refer to Google Scholars https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QUnJhlsAAAAJ&hl=en