Bilal Aksoy: Software Engineer

About

The framework is the easy part.

I'm a software engineer specializing in Flutter and Dart, with 3+ years of experience building mobile applications. The product and UX decisions behind a feature interest me as much as how it gets implemented.

Work

Dec 2023 – Present

İzmir · Remote

Software Engineer

Current

GBot Software Consultancy (opens in new tab) · Full-time

Built GoodieFood (opens in new tab), a U.S. K–12 school-lunch platform: admin, operator, and parent apps in Flutter on a Serverpod backend.
Rewrote Shas Illuminated (opens in new tab), a Talmud study app, redesigning its architecture and core UI and cutting startup and load times by up to 40%.
Built GrowMore (opens in new tab), an app that turns soil test results into fertilizer plans for New Zealand farms, including the optimizer behind the recommendations.
Shipped DropLove (opens in new tab), real-time tipping for DJs: they share a link or QR code, and fans tip them directly.
Migrated Change2go® (opens in new tab) from a legacy PHP and MySQL backend to a redesigned Firebase architecture, then added an AI layer with RAG and TTS.
Contributed to product and UX decisions on the company's own products and internal tools, alongside Google Developer Expert Gazihan Alankuş.

Flutter Dart Riverpod Serverpod Firebase Stripe

Jan 2023 – Dec 2023

İzmir · Remote

Flutter Developer

GBot Software Consultancy (opens in new tab) · Internship

Built and shipped Flutter features across client apps before moving into the full-time role.

Education

Oct 2020 – Jul 2024

B.Sc. Software Engineering

İzmir University of Economics (opens in new tab)

Capstone

Bolt Sports

An ice-hockey training app, gamified with BLE IoT devices.

1st place in Education, Entertainment & Gaming at Genç Beyinler Yeni Fikirler 2024 (opens in new tab).

Advised by Asst. Prof. Gazihan Alankuş.

Skills

Flutter & Dart

cross-platform mobile (Flutter, Dart)
state management (Riverpod)
responsive UI architecture
payments & subscriptions (Stripe, RevenueCat)
realtime & backend integration (Firebase, REST)
App Store & Play releases
Dart backends (Serverpod)
Dart SSR web (Jaspr, contributor)

AI-orchestrated development

problem decomposition & spec writing
directing coding agents (Claude Code, Codex)
reviewing & validating AI output to production standard

Architecture & judgment

system design
API & data modeling
modular, testable code
code review & quality evaluation
simplification & refactoring

Also work with

TypeScript & Python
Next.js (internal tools & admin panels)
SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Expo / React Native (read & debug)

Projects

I don't keep a wall of side projects: a few things I've shipped, and contributions to the tools I actually use.

Arada · aradaoyun.com

Live · TypeScript

A Turkish daily word game: find the secret five-letter word by binary-searching an alphabetically sorted dictionary, with positional hints only and no letter feedback. Turkish is the hard part: locale collation, dotted and dotless i casing, and an answer list reviewed by hand. Zero runtime dependencies, ~78 KB gzipped, works offline, runs on Cloudflare Workers.

Play

flutter_stripe · PRs #2395 & #2396

Merged · Dart

Fixed collectBankAccount and verifyMicrodeposits returning the wrong type by introducing a sealed CollectBankAccountResult union, then brought both methods to web with Stripe.js interop bindings in stripe_js and WebStripe. Native and web share one result shape.

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