# Hızal Çelik

> Artist and Devsigner

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hzal

www.hiz.al

I’m diligent in my pursuit for visual perfection. The fusion of my abilities developed across diverse interests helps me to generate creative solutions to challenges in tasks.

I love creating interfaces and designs as well as back end development for apps and games. The quality of my work has often been highlighted by my supervisors as above my colleagues’. I always try to make the most unique and functional product in any professional or personal project. I’m an adaptive learner and can adjust quickly to new environments and tools.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ Grata
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Grata
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer, Lead Designer @ Grata
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States
Responsibilities include full stack development using Django and React, being the front-end development lead, lead UI/UX designer, and core contributor to product design, product management. Additional projects have involved graphic design, logo and branding design, and marketing.

### Software Engineer (remote) @ Grata
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

### UI/UX Designer and .NET GUI Developer (project) @ Biopticon Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Project scope involved designing UI and mockups for the entire application, and developing the GUI using WPF .NET app environment.

### Professional Photographer @ Pittsburgh Flag Football League
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Pittsburgh

### Software Engineering (project) @ Pittsburgh Flag Football League
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Developed an automated team match-making software for planning game schedules.

### Product Designer @ Liquidnet
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | NYC
Summer ’16: Overhauled global development Bootstrap styleguide. Redesigned UI, UX and structure of globally used critical application. Held multiple meetings, case studies and presentations with global users and dev teams to accomplish tasks. 

Summer ’17: Inherited all active and upcoming projects, tasks and responsibilities of a full-time designer on sabbatical, and handled dense workload flawlessly. Made interactive HTML prototypes, sparking a reinvention in company-wide design process.

### Graphic Designer (remote) @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Web Design (project) @ PTI, Pharmaceutical Technologies International, Inc
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
A part-time occasional project involving the redesign and recreation of a website for PTI.


## Education
### Electronic and Time-Based Media - BFA in Software Engineering - Minor, Fine Arts, Software Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hizal
- Website: https://hiz.al

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Last updated: 2026-03-22