Altay Pulak

Altay Pulak, age 30, passed away in Texas, on January 4, 2020. He was born on January 11, 1989 in College Station, Texas, to Sema Pulak and Cemal Pulak.
After junior college, Altay followed his great passion for music and studied digital audio editing and recording in Austin where he also learned sound engineering and composition. During his final three years, he delved into the world of cryptocurrency and block chain technology, for he believed in the coming age of a world where everything would be decentralized. This new passion galvanized him to develop a skill set in financial innovation, distributed ledger technology, economics, marketing, sales and research. His comprehensive and diverse interest in this field allowed him to begin networking with individuals interested in supplementing these new technologies in businesses. Thus, he gained experience with leadership in teaching investors how block chains work and aiding them in planning basic business models and strategies in this new space through seminars that he offered in Las Vegas and later in College Station.
Despite his great interest in the financial world, Altay’s true passion remained to be music till the very end of his journey here. He played the piano throughout his life but also enjoyed learning and performing with cello during his middle school years. He started playing the piano before his kindergarten years during which he gave outstanding recitals. Altay’s skill as a pianist reached its peak in his late teens when he mastered Chopin’s and Rachmaninoff’s most challenging compositions. He himself composed beautiful pieces some of which were selected from among thousands of others and played on radio in Europe. His tribute to his beloved paternal aunt was a glorious piece that he composed the night of her passing, 25 days prior to his own departure from this world.
Altay was not only very gifted in music but was also a remarkably creative artist. He started drawing as a very young boy and amazed his loved ones with his exceptional creations. His detailed realistic drawings as a child later became symbolic and at times surrealistic creations, which left the viewers in awe of his unusual talent.
Altay was a beautiful and generous soul with a brilliant mind, a remarkable intellectual capacity, a great sense of humor, and many artistic and musical talents, along with an endless interest in the spiritual world. He will be sorely missed… He is survived by his parents, Sema and Cemal Pulak; his maternal aunt and uncle Fezal and Ilker Gulfidan; his maternal cousins Esra, Asli and Eren Gulfidan. He also leaves behind his paternal uncles Can Pulak with aunt Seyda and cousins Can, Alidoruk and Aysenaz; Cenan Pulak with aunt Hronn and cousins Kenan and Selma; his great aunt and uncle Ayla and Emin Turan and second cousins Berfu and Burak Turan; his paternal second cousins Gonul and Fatih Gençer; his uncle Yildirim Mit. He is preceded in death by his beloved paternal aunt Dilek Mit.
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