Systems & Autonomous Software Developer
Options aren't handed out. They're built. I've been building mine since I was eleven.
I develop low-level system architectures, autonomous robotic control systems, and local AI runtimes, focusing primarily on Rust and Python.
// 01 — the story
The short version of how I got here, one commit at a time.
In 2020 the pandemic hit our family's gift shop hard. With my mom taking a job elsewhere and my dad running the store alone, my afternoons moved from home to the shop — every single day after school.
I helped because my family needed it, and I'd do it again. But it also showed me something uncomfortable: even if I had wanted to say no, there was nothing else I could have said yes to.
So I started building alternatives.
In 10th grade I signed up for my school's R&D team. I wanted to build things far more than I wanted anyone watching me do it — and that's where my first real project came from.
The TÜBİTAK 4006 Science Fair was the first time my work had a real audience: visitors from all over the city. For a while, I stood back and let my teammate do the talking.
Then I thought about the kid behind the shop counter and stepped in. When the district's director of national education came by, I invited him over and gave him the demo myself, without a script.
The shy kid gave the demo.
Confidence turned out to compound. I put together a robotics team of my own, and we started entering competitions — and placing.
Mini-Sumo category. Focused on low-level sensor fusion and real-time control algorithms.
3rd place in both the Mini-Sumo and Maze Master categories.
Then my teacher brought me a new challenge: another international robotics competition — except this time, I'd have to build the robot entirely on my own.
Turning it down would have been easy, and nobody would have blamed me. For once, saying no was a real choice. I took the harder path anyway, because resting on what I'd already won felt like the surest way to stop growing.
Same yes as at eleven.
Different reason.
I entered the Fully Autonomous Car category, my first time working on autonomous systems. A trophy would have been nice; learning how to make a car drive itself was the real goal.
The road-detection logic I started with simply couldn't handle intersections, so I rebuilt it. Race day exposed the next weak spot — light. No trophy this time, but plenty of lessons a win wouldn't have taught me.
Designing a Rust-based PID controller and attempting to integrate a Hailo-8 AI accelerator (YOLOv8) via PyO3 on a Raspberry Pi 5 served as an invaluable, hands-on learning experience in hardware integration.
Since then, every project has been one more path I made for myself.
// 02 — highlight
1.3521° N, 103.8198° E · Singapore · 2026
Secured 1st place at the international coding conference and hackathon organized by the Hack Club global developer community.
From the shop counter in Turkey to first place in Singapore.
// 03 — featured work
An experimental engine built entirely in Rust, designed to talk with Large Language Models (LLMs) via API. Focuses on memory-efficient execution layers and Jarvis-like architectures.
A powerful desktop automation tool built on the Tauri framework. It utilizes a high-performance Rust backend to monitor system triggers — such as file and folder changes or application states — and automatically executes actions like webhooks, shell scripts, notifications, and custom sounds.
A healthcare software project bridging a physician interface with patient tracking. Designed with a dynamic UI in Python (CustomTkinter) and backed by secure data processing services written in Rust.
My first foray into autonomous systems for the 18th International MEB Robot Competition. While the project ultimately failed to meet its functional goals, designing a Rust-based PID controller and attempting to integrate a Hailo-8 AI accelerator (YOLOv8) via PyO3 on a Raspberry Pi 5 served as an invaluable, hands-on learning experience in hardware integration.
↑ read what happened on race dayAgentic flow to making readme files for projects.
A tool for remote management, screen sharing, and file transfer across devices on a local network.
A fun project: when your hardware usage gets too high, it plays some funny sounds you've chosen.
// 04 — the record
Secured 1st place at the international coding conference and hackathon organized by the Hack Club global developer community.
Participant in the national robotics technology event focused on autonomous systems.
Competed in the Autonomous Vehicle Category. Built a software architecture using a Raspberry Pi 5, Hailo-8 AI Accelerator, and Rust.
Secured 2nd place internationally in the Mini-Sumo category. Focused on low-level sensor fusion and real-time control algorithms.
Achieved 3rd place in both the Mini-Sumo and Maze Master robotics categories.
Presented technical demonstrations of multiple personal robotics and system software projects.
// 05 — toolbox