Robotics Software Engineer
Outdoor autonomy on real hardware — RTK GNSS localization, Nav2 waypoint navigation and the embedded motor interface underneath, running today on three ground vehicles that share one ROS 2 stack.
Multi-platform autonomous ground vehicle development
One ROS 2 autonomy architecture — dual-EKF RTK localization, Nav2 waypoint navigation and a micro-ROS motor interface — adapted across three physical ground vehicles with three different drive kinematics.
ROS 2 autonomy for an unmanned surface vessel — Njord Challenge 2025
Perception, mapping, mission logic and navigation for Team Navi’s autonomous surface vessel, which placed 4th of 11 teams at NTNU’s Njord Challenge in Trondheim.
Deterministic motion-control link over Ethernet
300 µs round-trip and zero loss across 600,000 packets at 1 kHz, over a CRC-checked protocol whose definition is shared byte-for-byte by firmware and host.
Shipped iOS product — drawings into narrated stories
A complete production application built and released alone: Flutter client, event-driven serverless backend, multimodal generation and narration pipeline, live on the App Store.
Optical flow, GPU processing and learned detection
Three separate implementations of the same problem — classical optical flow, a CUDA/OpenGL path, and a fine-tuned YOLO11 detector — built to compare their failure modes rather than their frame rates.
Sep 2025 — Present
Swegeo
Autonomous ground vehicles built from the electronic architecture up: ESP32 drive control under a Raspberry Pi 5 running ROS 2 Humble, and a custom ROS 2 driver for a dual-antenna RTK GNSS receiver with an integrated NTRIP client.
Outdoor waypoint navigation with Nav2 over EKF sensor fusion, plus the browser-based mission console used to plan and supervise runs in the field.
Feb 2025 — Jun 2025
Baykar
Moving-object detection for UAV footage, from OpenCV baselines to hardware-accelerated real-time processing with CUDA.
Integrated YOLOv11 for complex scenes and ran an R&D comparison of the approaches on performance and accuracy.
Aug 2025
Team Navi · Njord Challenge, NTNU
ROS 2 autonomy for an unmanned surface vessel: obstacle mapping, mission state machines, and dock approach and exit logic.
4th place among 11 international teams, Trondheim.
Oct 2024
Teknofest Unmanned Surface Vehicle Competition
Perception with a ZED camera and YOLO, A* route planning and Pure Pursuit path tracking across the autonomous vehicle stack.
Finalist. Most Original Software Award.
2020 — 2025
Bahçeşehir University
Full scholarship. Honour degree, GPA 3.15 / 4.00.
Istanbul, Türkiye
Available for robotics roles in Europe
I work at the boundary between robotics software and the vehicle itself — localization and navigation on one side, embedded control and physical integration on the other.
In practice that means writing the ROS 2 stack, writing the firmware it talks to, wiring the GNSS receiver and the IMU, and then taking the vehicle outside to find out what the configuration actually does. Most of what I know about EKF tuning, frame conventions and command arbitration came from watching a real platform get it wrong in a field.
The platforms so far are ground and marine: a tracked skid-steer UGV, a 4×4 differential rover and an Ackermann RC crawler running one shared autonomy architecture, and an unmanned surface vessel built with a team for the Njord Challenge at NTNU. I write C++ and Python, and I am comfortable being the person who owns the part where the software meets the hardware.