Visually Impaired Turkish Engineer Started Working on Facebook

Software engineering education in the United States see the completion of the scholarship from the disabled Burak Koray Polat , Facebook began working as a software engineer at the center. 

Lost sight of the 6-year-old Burak Koray Polat , high school had received training in Turkey until last year. Polat, who completed his secondary education in the United States as a high school exchange student, was entitled to receive a scholarship from Miami University Software Engineering as a result of the exams he took .

Burak Koray Polat, who started his internship on Facebook in the last year of the university, started to work as the first Turkish software engineer with a visual impairment on Facebook's campus in Silicon Valley in California.

Education for students with disabilities at the university deems reach without help to the places they want to go on campus, who pioneered the navigation program software Parker, disabled students to see who wants to progress in the field of science in Turkey aims to bring together on one platform.

Polat, who gave information about the job application process he made to Facebook , "I went to meet my mother who came to my graduation by wearing the vest with the logos of Facebook. It was the first time I told my mother there. My mother knew that she was still looking for a job until then." said.

I want to destroy the image of the visually impaired

Polat also stated that he got various reactions from his surroundings because he was married to a sighter, and said: "It is one of the hardest things for us to break the image of people with visual disabilities in our minds. Although we are married, it is not very good for us to sit and eat without knowing me because of my vision impairment. The first reflexes of me were to refuse me without knowing how to drink. If you develop as much, it will be so easy to get out of your visually impaired identity. "

Baba Polat stated that his son said to them that Allah is a blessing and said, "Koray has a very good saying to me." Don't worry about me, Dad, I can do everything you do except driving. "This is the summary of the work. he can do everything we can, except driving. " found the assessment.