CASE NO. FC-2025 · CONFIDENTIAL STATUS: AVAILABLE SKIP TO VERDICT ↓

FILE OPENED — REVIEW IN PROGRESS

Begin with the
candidate summary.

FORM HR-1

CANDIDATE SUMMARY

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Fikret Cansel - Full Stack Engineer
Full name
Fikret Cansel
Position
Full Stack Engineer
Current employer
Huawei — large-scale education platform
Base
Istanbul, Türkiye (UTC+3)
Experience
5+ years — web · mobile · cloud
Education
B.Sc. Computer Engineering, Pamukkale University
Languages
Turkish (native) · English (proficient)

Summary of qualifications: builds complete products — interface, services, deployment — and has done so at Huawei, Featuremind and Jotform, for users measured in millions.

Verified
FORM HR-2

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

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  1. 2025 — now

    Full Stack Engineer — Huawei

    Vue.js frontends & Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes; building an education platform with an international team — features, architecture, code reviews.

    REF NO. HW-25-001 · Vue · Spring Boot · Kubernetes · Java

    ✓ verified
  2. 2023 — 2025

    Frontend Engineer, Mid-level — Featuremind

    Server-side rendered e-commerce for large international audiences, built with teams across Nigeria and Türkiye.

    REF NO. FM-23-014 · Next.js · TypeScript · SSR

    ✓ verified
  3. 2022 — 2023

    Frontend Engineer — Jotform

    Diagnosed and resolved production issues reported by users worldwide; fed technical insight back into the product.

    REF NO. JF-22-203 · React · Redux · JavaScript

    ✓ verified
  4. 2022 — 2023

    Researcher — TÜBİTAK 2209-A NATIONAL GRANT

    Won a national research grant; designed, built and single-handedly deployed a real-time mobile social platform on a Linux VPS with Docker & Jenkins.

    REF NO. TB-22-2209 · React Native · Socket.io · Node.js · AWS

    ✓ verified
  5. 2021 — 2022

    Software Engineer — PoloPlus

    IoT systems: real-time dashboards and device communication over TCP/IP with Python, .NET and C#.

    REF NO. PP-21-077 · Python · .NET · C# · IoT

    ✓ verified
  6. 2021

    Software Engineer Intern — Sanlab

    C# Web API middleware for industrial system integration.

    REF NO. SL-21-INT · C# · Web API

    ✓ verified
References confirmed
FORM HR-3

SKILLS ASSESSMENT

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AreaTools in evidenceEvaluation
FrontendReact · Next.js · Vue · TypeScript
BackendSpring Boot · Node.js · .NET
MobileReact Native · Expo
DevOps & CloudDocker · Kubernetes · AWS · CI/CD
Testing & QualityJest · Playwright · code review
UI / UXFigma · responsive design
☑ MEETS REQUIREMENTS ☑ EXCEEDS IN CORE STACK ☑ FULL PRODUCT COVERAGE
EVIDENCE LOG

EXHIBITS A — F

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The following works were recovered from the candidate's GitHub and verified as finished, functional and used by real people.

EXHIBIT G · PUBLISHED WRITINGS

The candidate also writes. Press clippings recovered from Medium are attached to this file — see page 7.

see clippings →
Authentic work
FORM HR-5

GROWTH REPORT

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Observed progression, 2021 — present. Trajectory: steep, upward, no plateau in sight.

ProblemSolving TeamCoordination SystemThinking Architecture Ownership(today)
Fig. 1 — from “makes it work” to “owns how it's made”.
FORM HR-6

INTERVIEW NOTES

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Q. First impression?
Asks the right questions before writing a single line of code.
Q. Team fit?
Has shipped with teams from China, Nigeria and Türkiye — remote-friendly, timezone-proof, ego-free in code review.
Q. Outside the office?
Photography, theatre acting, Latin dance, camping, philosophy. Brings actual stage presence to demo day.
Q. Weaknesses?
Refuses to ship code he wouldn't want to read. (hover to declassify)
“Code is read more often than it is written —
he optimizes for the next human.” — margin note, found in the file
FORM HR-7

PRESS CLIPPINGS

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Recovered from the public record: the candidate writes about engineering. Latest articles clipped from Medium and filed below.

full archive on file at → medium.com/@fikretcansel1

On the record
FORM HR-8

FINAL ASSESSMENT

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  • Technical depth — confirmed
  • Product mindset — confirmed
  • Cross-cultural teamwork — confirmed
  • Ships, then owns what he ships — confirmed
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