Alpagut Sencer Karaca

• Led a team of 4 engineers building the software and hardware of an autonomous food delivery robot.
• Designed 2/4/6-layer high-speed PCBs for motor driving, ultrasonic sensing and several RF subsystems.
• Architected the embedded Linux software as microservices over ZeroMQ and gRPC/Protobuf.
• Implemented CANopen for motor controller communication across the robot's subsystems.
• Ran the Yocto build environment through Azure Pipelines on a dedicated OS-build server.
• Oversaw production planning, test jig design and hardware commissioning.

• Co-founded an R&D company delivering bespoke hardware and embedded software to industrial clients.
• Won client contracts and led end-to-end hardware and firmware engagements.
• Designed and mass-produced 500 units of a static powder coating machine with µA-precision current control and a fully custom LCD interface, including the manufacturing process.
• Advised clients on system architecture, component selection, signal integrity and production readiness.

• Developed multi-threaded microservice applications on embedded Linux for industry-leading IoT customers.
• Implemented cloud connectivity with MQTT (Sparkplug B / Mosquitto).
• Wrote custom Yocto layers, recipes (Dunfell, Kirkstone) and kernel extensions.
• Designed 2/4/6-layer PCBs and led production planning, testing and commissioning.
• Maintained CI/CD with Azure Pipelines and agents for automated OS builds.

• Designed 6-layer high-speed PCBs for smart glasses and battery fast-charging modules.
• Led PDN analysis and signal integrity reviews with ICD Design Integrity and Saturn PCB Suite.
• Contributed to embedded Linux and Android development for head-mounted displays.
• Took three products into mass production: the B-Pack USB-PD battery module, Cyclops HMD Pro and Cyclops HMD Pro G.

• Implemented PID control algorithms, PCB designs and embedded test software for industrial automation systems.

Solar cellular meter-reading board · PCB design

A solar-powered remote meter-reading node: camera on an FPC connector, SIM and cellular modem stacked on the underside, a wireless module with an external antenna and a wide-input power stage. Drag the board to turn it; the view is rendered straight from the Altium STEP and Gerbers.

Altium EZ Panelizer · Open-source tool

An Altium Designer script that builds a depanelisable panel from a single board, by V-cut scoring or mouse bites, with rails, tooling holes, fiducials and the fab note generated for you.

High-voltage DC generator card · Circuit design

A driver card for an electrostatic spray gun: an LV14540 buck converter feeding a power-transistor oscillator, with the inductor and switching frequency chosen for the cascade it drives.

PCB render pipeline · Tooling

One command turns an Altium STEP and its Gerbers into photorealistic Blender Cycles renders: studio stills, packaging shots and 360° turntable videos.

Altium layout helpers · Tooling

Scripts that speed up layout: one groups footprints by schematic sheet right after Update PCB, another draws a clean assembly drawing for both sides of the board.

Istanbul Technical University

Adnan Menderes University