Buke Otkunc graduated with honors from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey with a B.Sc. in Control and Computer Engineering. After a year of industry experience she continued her academic studies at the University of British Columbia to receive her M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The focus of her Masters work was on real-time operating systems. She has been employed as a software developer with Schema Software Inc. in Vancouver BC for the last three years. Among many other tasks she had in this position, Buke was involved in a project for converting a presentation file format to SVG.