My name is Suleyman Cabir Ataman. I want to write about coding and beyond in this blog.
I was born in Malatya, Turkey. I started coding with the QBasic classes we took at high school, and I literally fell in love with coding. After spending some time with Fortran, my older brother who was studying Electronics and Communication Engineering at the time, advised me to learn C instead of Fortran. From that point on my life took a break. During my high school years, I had an extraordinary interest and curiosity towards programming and it became one of my two passions along with music. In addition to C, I studied and coded in a lot of different languages including C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Java, J#, C#, D, JavaScript, Python, Go, Scala at least and some others that I forgot to mention probably.
After graduating from high school, I enrolled in the department of Management Information Systems at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul). I am admitted with a nation-wide ranking among 1.5 million students and earned merit based scholarship. I had the opportunity to take courses from distinctive professors about computer science. During my carrier, I took part in countless large, medium and small-scale projects.
I enjoy learning new programming languages and I try things on as many different platforms as I can. In short, programming is more than a profession for me, it is also a passion, a hobby. I enjoy learning and working on projects for myself. I have started coding in C# just after it has been invented, and it is still my primary programming language. I am also profecient in JavaScript, Java and Python. Except coding, I like to learn and work with the related concepts like front-end frameworks, DevOps, Testing, CI/CD and cloud. I am also enthusiastic about using Gen AI in coding.
I am also into music. I play baglama/saz, oud, guitar and several other musical instruments. I research music and its theory, as well. In addition to my Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information Systems, I have a Masters Degree in Istanbul Technical University Turkish Music MA program and a PhD Degree in the Musicology and Music Theory doctorate program. Except coding and music, I am curious about history, philosophy, sociology and linguistics.
I am currently living in London and working as Principal Software Engineer at Sky UK. I am married and have a son.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scabir/