Melis was born and raised in İzmir, Turkey. She got her Bachelor’s Degree from the Izmir University of Economics in Software Engineering. The program refined her expertise with C, C++, PHP, MySQL, and Oracle.
After graduating, she immediately worked for Optimum7 as a developer intern. While working on Laravel Framework she found the test area better-suited to her skill set. Melis aims to improve her testing experience to help others on the team.