Melih Arık
Software Engineer
Building apps in Tallinn, Estonia. 30+ shipped to the App Store and Google Play, most recently Hetku, a live transit map for the Baltics.
Off screen I play drums and guitar. I write on my blog, and I'm open to freelance work: book a call.
Experience
Software Engineer · Omniva
2026–now
Indie Developer · Freelance
2023–2025
Mobile Application Developer · More Payroll
2023
Software Developer · Bursa Uludağ University
2022–2023
Server (Career Break) · Work and Travel Program
2022
Flutter Developer · Mediate
2021–2022
Flutter Developer Intern · Morphosium
2021
Projects
Every bus, tram and train in 49 Baltic cities, moving live on one map. Native Kotlin and SwiftUI apps, a SvelteKit web app and a Firebase backend.
Remote config for shipped apps. Force updates and maintenance mode without a store review, with SDKs for Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native and the web.
Every Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest save in one place, sorted by AI. Native iOS app with a share extension and a NestJS gateway.
BeatzyTop 100 on App Store
AI music generator for iOS, built with SwiftUI and a Node.js backend.
Also built Portman, Tartu bike-share analysis, a real-time geo-fencing engine and an encrypted messaging app.
Open Source
Riverpod · Turkish translation of the documentation
7 merged
Documentation and code sample fixes merged into Zod, TanStack Query, Flutter, FlutterFire, Kingfisher, Astro, Hono, Dart http, Drift, Flame and Coil.
Speaking
Encrypted Messaging Application Combining AES and RSA Algorithms · ICETI'24
Oct 2024
Level Up Your Flutter Skills with Shortcuts · GDG Bursa
Dec 2023
First Step to Flutter · Bursa Technical University Google Developer Student Clubs
Jul 2023
AstroTarot: Building a Spiritual Mobile App · Side Projects Stories
May 2023
Manage users with Firebase Auth · Flutter Festival Turquoise
Mar 2023
Writing
Research
Encrypted Messaging Application Combining AES and RSA Algorithms · ICETI'24, first author
Oct 2024
Education
University of Tartu · MSc, Software Engineering
2025–now
Bursa Uludağ University · BSc, Computer Engineering
2019–2024
ILAC Toronto · Language school
2017