About
A versatile Computer Engineer with 17+ years of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, IoT product manufacturing, enterprise software architecture, Software Defined Data Centers, software, product and startup lifecycle from inception across Turkey, Netherlands, Germany and the US.
Currently serving as Product Engineering Lead — Software Architecture at BTS Group, laying the foundation for scalable software products, bridging the gap between product and core engineering, and driving architectural decisions across distributed systems and SDDC platforms.
Previously founded and led multiple technology startups from inception to manufacturing, including an Industrial IoT company (TARSUS Inc.) where I engineered 20+ hardware modules, and a personal security device (Smart Mimic Inc.) showcased at CES 2020 in Las Vegas.
Quick Facts
Experience
BTS Group works on software, autonomy and AI tools for Data Centers
Product Engineering Lead — Software Architecture
- Define and communicate architecture vision for enterprise SDDC platforms, guiding long-term product evolution and reducing cost of ownership
- Translate product requirements into technically sound architectures and engineering strategies for distributed systems
- Oversee full product lifecycle from architecture perspective — ensuring scalability, performance, and technical feasibility
- Designed and shipped enterprise-grade Identity Access Management (IAM), Authentication, Authorization, Audit (AAA) and Role Based Access Control (RBAC) systems from the ground up
- Designed Resource Load Balancer (RLB) architecture and algorithm for optimal VM resource utilization and migration
- Drive engineering best practices, code quality standards, and technical excellence across teams via mentoring
- Prepare and maintain related documentation
- Manage technical debt strategy; advocate for refactoring and architectural improvements
- Sybelle — Software Defined Virtualization Platform — a VMware replica built from the ground-up (GoLang, Linux Kernel, KVM, QEMU)
- Unified Suite — A software suite unifying all BTS Group applications, centralizing IAM, inter-application communication, synchronization and data persistence (GoLang, PostgreSQL, Next.js, TypeScript)
Full-Stack & Embedded Engineer
- R&D: 1X Fleet Command Robot Management System — a humanoid robot management platform MVP for 1X Technologies senior full-stack engineer take home challenge (GoLang, React, TypeScript, MySQL, PWA)
- R&D: Field Report — a mobile mini ERP application to track and manage employees and tasks assigned for field work (GoLang, React, TypeScript, MySQL, PWA)
- R&D: Industrial cold storage remote management hardware & software system (ESP32, C/C++, GoLang, React, TypeScript, MySQL)
Securify Identity manages and secures identity, authorization and authentication needs of enterprises
Software Team Lead
- Leading software teams
- R&D and software architectural design
- Bootstrapping a corporate documentation methodology and implementing a procedural documentation system
- Educating and training engineering/business teams
- Bootstrapping effective Human Resources methodologies for engineering teams and implementing a procedural HR system
Smart Mimic is an ultra-low power, wireless personal security device
CTO / Lead Software & Embedded Engineer
- Researching & engineering embedded systems applications for Nordic Semi’s nRF52 family series and SEMTECH’s SX1276 LoRa Transceiver module’s embedded and server-side application software platforms
Achievements
- International Consumer Electronics Show attendee company, CES 2020, Las Vegas, Nevada
Founded and led TARSUS Inc. from inception to manufacturing, training both business and engineering teams. Gone through an intensive business administration and management training and mentorship (MBA). Engineering, R&D and manufacturing of TARS Industrial IoT hardware & software systems.
Founder / CEO / CTO & Lead Engineer
- Manufactured 20+ high-tech hardware IoT modules including ultra-low power wireless communications modules (LoRa, LoRaWAN, NB-IoT) and microcontrollers
- Manufactured high precision industrial sensor modules
Achievements
- Startup Istanbul 2016 — Selected into top 50 out of 25,000 global applicants
- ITU Cekirdek 2016 — Elginkan Foundation Special Prize 50,000 TL at Big Bang Finals (top 15 out of 5,600+ applicants)
- Mercedes-Benz Turkey ‘50 Startups in 50 Years’ 2017 — Top 50 out of 600+ applicants, cash prize winner
- Global Cleantech Innovation Programme 2017 — Top 32 out of 200+ applicants, incubation training
- TET 6th R&D Project Bazaar — Smart Applications Category 2nd place, 10,000 TL
- Tübitak BIGG 1512 Government Grant — Winner 150,000 TL
- NVIDIA Inception Program Startup Partner
- Bureau-Veritas Startup Meeting 2019, Dubai — Selected for pitch presentation
Engineering and R&D of Industrial IoT systems
Founder / CEO / CTO & Lead Engineer
- Remote irrigation canal management system (embedded systems, microcontrollers, C/C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript)
- Remote liquid tank level measurement and supply chain automation (embedded systems, microcontrollers, C/C++, GoLang, React, TypeScript)
This project has been approved and is currently being used for educating thousands of children by the Turkish Ministry of National Education
Computer Engineer — R&D
- Analysis, design, implementation and development of Gedex and Gedeksis projects which serve for interactive education and training of young and/or disabled children
Research Assistant (Guest Researcher)
- Power optimization in Intel’s 48 core Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) multi-core processor (Master’s thesis)
Research Assistant
- Computer engineering & science researcher, lecture assistant
- AI/ML/Data Mining research
- Project development and management, embedded systems (IoT) engineering/manufacturing
Mobile device touch sensor R&D and manufacturing
Intern Software / Java Engineer
- Developing end user Java applications for demonstration purposes of Tech21 touch sensors for mobile devices
Engineering 3G infrastructure for Turkey’s biggest telecommunication company Turkcell (subcontractor)
Software & System Engineer (Unix/Linux)
- Realtime ultra-high speed, low-latency GPEH (GPRS Performance/Event Handling) data parsing for Sony Ericsson’s base stations
MetricsNET
- An autonomous remote electricity/gas/water meter readout and flow controller
Medical, military and industrial based hardware and software development, engineering, maintenance
Intern Computer Engineer / R&D
- Corporate Instant Messaging and Collaboration Platform (Java, TCP/IP sockets)
- Festival and FLITE open source Text to Speech engine adaptation, compilation, debugging and integration (C/C++)
- MIL-STD Blackhawk & Seahawk military helicopter/battleship simulator text-to-speech modules (C/C++)
- NATO Stock Number Tracing Automation Application (Windows Forms, C#, MSSQL)
Skills
Languages & Technologies
Domain Expertise
Tools & Technologies
AI Models & LLMs
IDEs
Education
Bachelor's Degree of Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering Department
Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
Guest Researcher
Multi-core Power Optimization
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
102 / 120
English Proficiency
Achievements
CES 2020, Las Vegas
International Consumer Electronics Show attendee company with Smart Mimic Inc.
Bureau-Veritas Dubai 2019
Selected for pitch presentation at international startup meeting
NVIDIA Inception
Accepted as Startup Partner in NVIDIA's program
Tübitak BIGG 1512
Government R&D Grant Winner (150,000 TL)
Mercedes-Benz '50 in 50'
Top 50 out of 600+ applicants, cash prize winner
Global Cleantech Innovation
Top 32 out of 200+ applicants, incubation training
Startup Istanbul 2016
Top 50 out of 25,000 global applicants
ITU Cekirdek Big Bang
Elginkan Foundation Special Prize 50,000 TL out of 5,600+ applicants
TET R&D Project Bazaar
Smart Applications Category 2nd place, 10,000 TL