Burak Somuncuoğlu Email & Phone Number

Burak Somuncuoğlu is a Software Engineer at Chainalysis. Colleagues describe him as "Burak worked with me as a research assistant (RA) from January to August 2019 and teaching assistant (TA) from August to December 2019. As a TA, he helped me conduct a graduate course in the computer-science program: CIS600 Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies. In addition to typical TA responsibilities (grading and holding office hours), Burak was actively involved in the design and development of our blockchain hands-on labs (his Github commits to our education project: https://github.com/BlockchainLabSU/SUBlockchainLabs/graphs/contributors). As a RA, Burak contributed to research projects related to blockchains and secure hardware like Intel SGX. Notably, Burak has been awarded Honorable Mention in the Google & Intel 2019 C3 Challenge (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-the-winners-of-the-confidential-computing-challenge). As both TA and RA, Burak learns new technologies quickly, including Ethereum, HyperLedger Fabric, and Intel SGX developments. He is a capable communicator and can effectively guide students on technical terms. He is exceptional at analyzing and understanding the requirements and implementing according to the projects' needs. He delivered great engineering results in a timely fashion while managing multiple projects simultaneously. Based on my experience with him, I would recommend Burak as a strong candidate for any team." and "I've had great pleasure working with Sencer. I supervised him as a team lead at Snow Joe for his first position after graduating from college. Sencer goes deep and wide on every layer of our project, from core networking and business logic up to UI , always thinking out of the box. He was very professional in terms of his attention to detail, relationship building with teammates, and proactively finding tasks in addition to his normally-assigned work. He is always contributed to building upon our team’s skills and improving our code base to include best practices and new technologies as they emerged, Closely following the current events in the industry, he sought to teach himself these new methods and include them in the work he produced. I am confident that he will bring these skills and more to any place he works and I am happy to recommend him to the highest degree."