R&D Engineer · Builder · Problem Solver

Hi, I'm Kaan
a mechatronics engineer who builds, ships & tinkers.

I lead R&D at SK Teknoloji, building autonomous mobile robots for real factory floors. After hours, I ship mobile apps, web products and strange little tools — from the robot to the login screen.

Open to Robotics Product Engineering Full-stack R&D Roles
02Real Work

Things I've actually shipped.
Not just slides.

A mix of industrial robotics, co-founded products and solo-built apps. Field-tested, live or in active deployment — most of them out there beyond the prototype folder.

LS2R passport and face-verification gate system installed at a border-control turnstile
Product System · Border Control2023

LS2R — passport and face-verification gate system

Government border-control product that speeds up passport-control flow: a traveler scans a passport, completes face verification and passes through the turnstile. I owned the camera-unit product design, custom Raspberry Pi interface PCB, control I/O and deployment-ready hardware integration.

Role
Product design and hardware engineer
Scope
Mechanical design · custom PCB · Raspberry Pi/I/O · turnstile integration
Status
Installed government border-control deployment
Product System Border Control Custom PCB Turnstile Integration
symphonydrive autonomous conversion module installed on STILL LTX-70
Mercedes Aksaray · Tow Tractor2024–2025

MF7-CS — autonomous STILL LTX-70 tow tractor

Outdoor autonomous tow-tractor conversion for Mercedes Aksaray. I engineered the conversion layer around the STILL LTX-70: mechanical CAD, outdoor-ready packaging, E-Plan, CAN-BUS + analog/digital I/O, PLC, IPC control software, vehicle integration and site commissioning.

Role
Lead conversion engineer — CAD, electrical, controls, integration
Scope
SolidWorks · E-Plan · CAN-BUS/I/O · PLC/IPC
Status
Active Mercedes Aksaray deployment
Mercedes Aksaray Field Integrated Outdoor Tow Full Conversion
MF7-FY autonomous Yale ERP-30VL forklift conversion
Arçelik · Forklift2022–2025

MF7-FY — autonomous Yale ERP-30VL forklift

Autonomous forklift conversion now active in Arçelik's refrigerator factory, moving products from conveyor output to the right factory locations with a vehicle conversion I engineered end-to-end.

Role
Lead conversion engineer — CAD, electrical, production, integration
Scope
70+ CAD · E-Plan · SICK safety · PLC/I/O
Status
Active Arçelik factory deployment
Arçelik Factory Deployed Autonomous Conveyor Handling
MF7-RJ autonomous Jungheinrich ETV216 reach truck conversion
Colgate Gebze · Reach Truck2021–2023

MF7-RJ — autonomous Jungheinrich ETV216 reach truck

My first industrial robot: a Jungheinrich ETV216 converted for autonomous pallet handling at Colgate Gebze, built around first-generation symphonydrive 1.0 and symphonyvision 1.0 modules I designed and integrated.

Role
Lead conversion engineer — design, electrical, controls, production
Scope
SolidWorks · E-Plan · PLC/I/O · safety/perception
Status
Completed Colgate Gebze deployment
Colgate Gebze Factory Deployed Pallet Handling First Industrial Robot
Artinit interactive e-commerce storefront preview
E-commerce · 3D Product WebLive

Artinit — interactive e-commerce for collectible objects

Founder-built storefront at artinit.shop with premium product presentation, interactive 3D viewing, payments, database architecture and self-hosted deployment owned end-to-end.

Role
Founder · full-stack developer · product/ops
Stack
Next.js · Three.js · Prisma · PostgreSQL · PayTR
Status
Live web · self-hosted
E-commerce Next.js Three.js PayTR
DEVICES1,284
LABELS9,612
UPTIME99.8%
B2B · Dashboard2023–

ESL Platform — shelf labels at scale

Modular electronic shelf label management platform for products, labels, devices and operational dashboards.

Role
Co-founder · platform architect
Stack
Next.js · Flutter · PostgreSQL · WS
Status
In active deployment
Co-founded Real-time B2B
04About Me
3D character illustration of Kaan

A short about me,
written on a napkin.

By day, I lead R&D for autonomous mobile robots at SK Teknoloji — the kind that move through real factories, not just clean demo rooms.

By night, I build and ship my own products: Flutter apps, web dashboards, e-commerce systems and small hardware experiments.

I like owning the whole stack — from LiDAR and motor drivers to APIs, interfaces and deploying to users.

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05My Stack

The stack I reach for
on a normal Tuesday.

A little two-lane traffic: software drifts one way, hardware the other. Same person behind the wheel.

ROS / ROS2 SLAM LiDAR RTK / GNSS Sensor Fusion (EKF) SolidWorks Fusion 360 Sheet Metal Design FEA KiCad E-Plan Wiring Harness CAN Bus Profinet EtherCAT RS-485 OPC-UA BLE SICK Safety Systems SafetyDesigner CE Certification C / C++ Arduino NVIDIA Jetson Raspberry Pi Motor Drive Commissioning 3D Printing
— and a few more, picked up on the road.
06Lab Notes

Field-tested opinions.

Note #014

A field robot does not care about your perfect Figma layout.

Note #021

If it works only on your desk, it does not work yet.

Note #037

Simple systems are not easy. They just survived many iterations.

Note #052

Ship early, iterate in the field, learn fast, build better.

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