About Me
Welcome to my website! I'm a Software Engineering student at the University of Waterloo focused on high-performance systems and financial technology. Currently, I'm an incoming SWE Intern at Coinbase on the Institutional Team, with previous experience building backend systems at BitGo and AtoB.
My technical focus is on systems programming and financial technology. I am deeply interested in competitive programming, distributed systems, and low-latency infrastructure.
Education
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Software Engineering (AI Specialization)
3.7/4.0 GPA • Sep 2023 – Apr 2028
Math: Combinatorics & Optimization, Signals & Systems, Numerical Computation, Statistics, Linear Algebra, Calculus
Computers: Advanced Algorithms, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Compilers, Software Design & Testing, User Interfaces
Languages
Tools & Frameworks
Interests
Work Experience
Coinbase
Software Engineering Intern
Incoming Summer 2026 on the Institutional Team.
BitGo
Software Engineering Intern
Enhanced security infrastructure and hardened SDK for cryptocurrency custody platform.
Built Rust-based linter using Trustfall and GraphQL to enforce SHA pinning, protecting 320+ repositories
Improved BitGo SDK OpenSSF Scorecard from 5.4 to 7.5 by remediating npm vulnerabilities (XSS, DoS, credential leakage)
AtoB
Software Development Intern
Built AI-powered systems for lead scoring and customer matching, creating significant business value.
Built ML lead scorer and autoencoder for customer matching, boosting sales ROI ($8M+ ARR projected)
Created data pipelines: UTM tracking (500K+ events/month) and UCC-1 web scraper ($150K+ data)
Developed semantic matching for user-uploaded fuel statements to SQL relations
D2L
Software Development Intern
Developed AI-powered educational tools and multi-agent systems for automated course QA.
Built multi-agent framework for automated course QA using AWS Step Functions and Lambda
Created Brightspace tool for FAISS knowledge graphs and semantic course search
Designed custom RAG models for AI tutoring, integrated with React UI
My Projects
A few of my projects — all on GitHub
A concurrent arbitrage trading engine written in Go that aggregates live order book data from multiple exchanges into a centralized Global Order Book to identify and execute profitable spread opportunities in real-time.
Highlights•Thread-safe order book•Real-time arbitrage execution•Live trading dashboard
Built a 95% accurate neural network to classify 12 types of cancer from microarray samples. Won the Canada-Wide Science Fair and represented Canada at the EU Contest for Young Scientists (2nd place).
Highlights•95% accuracy•Canada-Wide Science Fair Winner•$20K funding•Published to CSF Journal
Collaborative whiteboard that turns voice and video into structured diagrams in real-time. Powered by Gemini 2.0 Flash and AWS Amplify Gen 2 for spatially-aware, multimodal collaboration.
Highlights•AWS Campus Champions: Best Use of DynamoDB Streams @ Hack the North
Led a 5-person software team to develop a centralized government contracting platform. Built a fully responsive landing page and 10+ application pages using React with MUI and Tailwind CSS.
Highlights•5-person team lead•Centralized platform•AWS infrastructure
A startup that transforms speech into presentation slides live using AI. Fine-tuned GPT-3.5 and used DALL-E for image generation. Deployed to prsntai.com using Vercel.
Highlights•Live speech-to-slides•Fine-tuned GPT-3.5•Multi-framework implementation
Personal repo for ML/DL experiments: CPH survival models, decision trees, ResNet-50 saliency maps, and Kaggle code. Inspired by Hands-On Machine Learning.
Highlights•CPH survival models•Decision tree classifiers•ResNet-50 saliency maps•Kaggle competition code
Journey from Python to C++. Solutions and notes for major contests (AOC, CCC, USACO, CodeForces, etc.), plus scripts for stress-testing and code templates.
Highlights•Advent of Code, CCC, USACO, CodeForces, and more•Stress-testing scripts•Code templates (e.g., trie)•17th place in Canada (picoCTF 2022)
Get In Touch
I'm always interested in new opportunities. Whether you want to discuss a project, internship, or just say hello, feel free to reach out!
kulacoglukoral@gmail.com
Location
Toronto, Canada
Canadian & Turkish Citizen
