Alp Bolukbasi
Karlsruhe, DE

M.Sc. Computer Science @ KIT : hardware-aware systems engineer

somewhere between the debugger and the datasheet


01 // About


I come from systems and operations: networks, security, DevOps, and infrastructure-flavored engineering. That background made me interested in real systems, failure modes, performance bottlenecks, and the beautiful moment where abstractions stop being polite.

Over time, the rabbit hole pulled me closer to the machine: low-level behavior, memory, hardware-aware software, embedded systems, and computer architecture. I decided to go back to school as a masters student.

These days, I am mostly interested in the boundary between software and hardware: RISC-V, memory systems, FPGA-based prototyping, accelerators, hardware/software co-design, and hardware security.

I am currently an M.Sc. computer science student at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), working as a student assistant at the Chair of Embedded Systems on HLS implementations and hardware accelerators for embedded processors.

02 // Now


now Student assistant, KIT Chair for Embedded Systems (CES)
study M.Sc. Computer Science, KIT — since Oct 2025
before 5+ years in Linux systems, infra and software development
focus RISC-V, FPGA/HLS, accelerators, hardware security

03 // Interests


RISC-Vmemory systemsFPGA prototypingacceleratorshw/sw co-designhardware security
[01] ops stuff
[02] low level
[03] embedded development
[04] hardware-software co-design
[05] somewhere between debugger and the datasheet