Hakan was a student employee at UMass Amherst from 2019-2022 where he built and maintained the Unity platform in its initial form. Hakan’s background is in electrical engineering, and he now pursues an MS in electrical and computer engineering at UMass Amherst. Hakan now works for Boston University as an engineer on the MassOpenCloud Alliance team and continues to promote collaboration between the universities in the MGHPCC data center. After his time working at UMass, Hakan continues to act as the maintainer of the Unity web portal. He hopes to mature the Unity web portal code base with the help of talented developers to enhance the experience on the Unity platform, as well as open the project to other HPC clusters.