Computer Science and Engineering 2007 graduate Sarp Centel (BSCS'07) was featured in the article “Mad Turks of Silicon Valley” in the Hürriyet daily.
Here is an excerpt of the article on Sarp Centel, a member of the team that develops mobile apps for Instagram:
Head hunters got him for Instagram
Sarp Centel is another Turkish national who has been enjoying success in Silicon Valley. Sarp Centel was employed in the technology department of a mobile operator in Turkey. He resigned to start his own business, but when that didn’t work out, he started working in a UK-based company. Centel was discovered by Instagram’s talent hunters, and relocated to the Silicon Valley offices of the company. Centel is now a member of the team that develops mobile apps for Instagram, which was acquired by Facebook for 1 billion dollars. Centel says that he gained a year’s worth of experience in a month. Centel continues, “When my own business did not end up well, I decided to work towards going to Silicon Valley. The entrepreneurship ecosystem in Turkey is developing rapidly, but my objective is to gain experience in Silicon Valley for five years before starting a technology company in Turkey.”
The original article is available here.
For more information about Sarp Centel, you can visit his personal website.