Student Assistant (HiWi) — KIT Chair for Embedded Systems (CES)

May 2026 – Present · Karlsruhe, Germany

• Contributing to the Customized Embedded Processors Lab, rewrite focused on HLS-based accelerator development.
• Designed and updated FPGA/HLS lab infrastructure, Vitis/Vivado workflows, hardware/software interfaces, and student-facing documentation.
• Worked with Verilog, C, Vitis HLS, Vivado, embedded processors, and reproducible lab bring-up flows.

IP Integration Engineer — Nokia

Dec 2023 – Sep 2025 · Istanbul, Turkey

• Built Python network/systems automation for configuration, validation, and integration workflows on carrier-grade routing platforms.
• Supported large-scale network migrations across Nokia 7705, IXR 7250, and SR 7750 platforms in EMEA/APAC deployments.
• Debugged Linux, Kubernetes, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, automation, and distributed deployment issues.

Integration Engineer — Ericsson

Oct 2022 – Dec 2023 · Istanbul, Turkey

• Developed Python, Ansible, and shell tooling for telecom node integration, deployment, validation, and recovery workflows.
• Troubleshot low-level connectivity, configuration, packet-flow, and Linux/networking issues in distributed deployment environments.
• Hands-on Linux sessions and demonstrations delivered for the fellow graduates in the MMEA region (my manager encouraged and motivated me to do so)

DevOps Engineer Intern — Huawei

Jun 2022 – Sep 2022 · Istanbul, Turkey

• Developed Go, Bash, and Ansible automation for network performance validation, provisioning workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and Linux infrastructure checks.

Cyber Security Intern — PwC

Oct 2021 – Jun 2022 · Istanbul, Turkey

• Built a cyber security risk maturity model to evaluate, score, and visualize the security posture of a multi-entity enterprise environment.

Network Security Engineer, Part-Time — Turkcell

Jul 2020 – Oct 2021 · Istanbul, Turkey

• Supported firewall, load balancer, WAN/LAN, VPN, routing, and network security troubleshooting in production environments.

M.Sc. Computer Science — Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Oct 2025 – Present · Karlsruhe, Germany

• Focus: computer architecture, embedded systems, low-level systems, hardware/software co-design, security, and reliability.
• Selected relevant coursework: Embedded Systems I/II, FPGA Programming Lab, Hardware-Efficient AI, Low Power Design, Practical Introduction to Hardware Security, Internet of Everything, IoT Lab.

B.Sc. Computer Science — Ozyegin University

2017 – 2022 · Istanbul, Turkey

• Graduation project: B-Auth, a blockchain-based authentication and authorization protocol for SDN controllers.

Hardware Security FPGA Work

• Implemented FPGA-based hardware security experiments using Verilog, UART, Python tooling, cocotb, and open-source FPGA flows.
• Built an SRAM PUF readout flow on Lattice iCE40HX8K and analyzed repeated power-cycle captures for reliability, uniqueness, uniformity, and bit-aliasing.
• Implemented AES-128 hardware modules including SubBytes, ShiftRows, MixColumns, AddRoundKey, key scheduling, and UART wrapper logic.

rv32i-mla — RISC-V / ML Accelerator Playground

• Built a compact hardware/software co-design playground around a custom RV32I-subset processor and a fixed-function 4x4 int8 matrix multiplication accelerator.
• Worked across Verilog RTL, FPGA integration, Python board bring-up, and C-side runtime interaction.

B-Auth — Blockchain-Based Authentication for SDN Controllers

• Designed a decentralized authentication and authorization protocol for SDN controllers.
• Integrated Python-based Ryu controllers with Go chaincode and performed formal verification tests with AVISPA.