Gülşen Demiröz is a Senior Development Lead at Microsoft with over 15 years of experience in software engineering. She has a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University and led development teams creating features for Microsoft Outlook and online services. Her background includes designing, implementing, and testing networking and email applications using technologies like C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.

1. 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
• 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.

2. Software Design Engineer Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA (2001-2006)
Design and implement Office Outlook features (used C/C++/COM):
 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
• 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.