Gülşen Demiröz
15606 NE 40th ST #J239 Redmond WA USA 98052
Work: +1 (425) 706-6181 Cell: +1 (425) 785-5306
gulsend@microsoft.com
Education
M.S. in Computer Engineering and Information Science
1995 - 1997
Bilkent University
Ankara, TURKEY
 Thesis: Non-incremental Classification Learning Algorithms Based on Voting Feature
Intervals. (PDF copy).
 Publications:
 Learning Differential Diagnosis of Erythemato-Squamous Diseases using
Voting Feature Intervals. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Vol.13, No.3,
(1998).
 Classification by Voting Feature Intervals. Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence: 9th European Conference on Machine Learning-97. (April 1997).
 Genetic Algorithms to Learn Feature Weights for the Nearest Neighbor
Algorithm. In Proceedings of the 6th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine
Learning (BENELEARN-96), (Sept 1996).
B.S. in Computer Engineering and Information Science
1991 - 1995
Bilkent University
Ankara, TURKEY
 Graduation Rank of 1.
 Senior Project: Translation of Turkish words.
 Favorite courses: Data Structures, Object Oriented Software Development,
Programming Languages, Algorithms, Database Management Systems, Artificial
Intelligence, Logic Programming.
Patents and Awards
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Microsoft Gold Star Award, 2007.
Patent: “Providing Online Connectivity across a Range of Electronic Communications
Systems”, 06/27/2003.
Scholarship from Bilkent University for graduate study as a research and teaching
assistant, 1995-1997.
B.S. Graduation Rank of 1, 1995.
Scholarship from Bilkent University for undergraduate study, 1991-1995, including full
tuition and a stipend.
Always in Dean's Honor and High Honor lists.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
Bilkent University, TURKEY
(1996 – 1997)
Graded homework and midterms; facilitated classroom learning for following courses:
 CS315: Programming Languages.
 CS482: Logic for Computer Science.
Professional Experience
Senior Development Lead
Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA (2006-Present)
 Leading a development team of size 4 in the Microsoft Online Services group.
Gaining project planning, leadership and coaching skills.
 Design, architect and develop several feature areas using C#, ASP.NET, AJAX, .NET
web services and Microsoft servers.
 Active member of the interviewing and hiring team.
Software Design Engineer
Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA (2001-2006)
Design and implement Office Outlook features (used C/C++/COM):
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Replication engine and an asynchronous provider API. (Office Outlook 2007)
POP3 e-mail account delivery to its own store. (Office Outlook 2007)
Auto-configuration UI for e-mail account configuration. (Office Outlook 2007)
Network change detection for Outlook’s connection state. (Outlook 2003)
Led cross-group collaboration projects such as Outlook Live team in India.
Software Test Lead
Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA (2000-2001)
 Led a test team of size 6 in the Networking team of Windows 2000/XP. Grew team
members’ coding and networking skills.
 Developed tools to create and stress test demand-dial network interfaces. Used C++.
 Active member of the interviewing and hiring team.
Software Design Engineer
Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA (1997 – 2000)
 Designed and implemented software to test the Routing and Remote Access Service
in Core Networking group of Windows 2000 Server.
 Designed and implemented test results collector database software. Used C++ and
SQL Server.
 Designed and implemented test applications for demand-dial routing and a route
lookup algorithm used in the TCP/IP stack and the router. Used C/C++, MFC.
Summer Intern
YABIM Izmir, TURKEY
(Summer 1993)
 Developed a graphical calculator to be used in a computer-aided education project
for the contest of Military of Education.
Computer Languages and Technologies
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Languages: C#, C, C++, UML, SQL, Pascal, Assembly, Prolog.
Technologies: .NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, Active Directory, SharePoint, COM, MAPI,
multi-threaded, network and Win32 programming, SQL, MFC.
Operating systems: WINDOWS, UNIX and DOS Environments.
Languages
Fluent English, native Turkish.