Turkey Champion
Combat UAV - Rotary Wing Category
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About Me
A quick look at me as a developer
My core area. I build high-performance desktop, web and cybersecurity software in .NET Core, shipping production-ready products at enterprise scale with multithreading and layered architecture.
My language for autonomy and AI. I write real-time computer vision with OpenCV and Faster R-CNN, and autonomous UAV mission software over MAVLink — I built the AI-detection unit of the Teknofest-champion KAPGAN with this stack.
The language of embedded, real-time software. I write firmware and I2C/UART hardware drivers on STM32 and ESP32, working close to the metal with low-level embedded C.
A solid object-oriented foundation. Object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms — a tool I use confidently in teaching and cross-platform work.
Mechatronic Engineering - Bachelor's Degree
Bursa Technical University2018 - 2025
Completed English preparatory year. Organized C programming course as sole instructor in freshman year. Active member of IEEE, Young Red Crescent, and Young TEMA organizations.
- Turkish— Native
- English— B1+ (upper-intermediate)
Experience
My Professional Journey

Senior Software Developer
Siberson Cyber Security
Building high-performance, cross-platform (Windows & Linux) cybersecurity software in .NET Core (6.0 & 8.0) on Clean Code and SOLID principles — Verifim (File Integrity Monitoring) and Verikor (Data Leakage Prevention). Alongside this I write kernel-level C++ — system-level monitoring/prevention components that hook into operating-system events. I maximized performance in concurrent operations with advanced multithreading, built comprehensive Robot Framework test automation on Windows Server and RHEL, and shipped professional installers with Advanced Installer.

Founder & Software / UAV Instructor
Softivation
Founded and run Softivation, my personal technology brand focused on software, UAVs and AI. I deliver autonomous UAV software (ArduPilot/PX4, system-architecture design and simulation), custom web & desktop application development, and TEKNOFEST competition consulting for clients. I also run one-on-one tutoring and training programs covering UAV control with Python, Mission Planner, C#, UAV communications, and AI & UAV simulation.

Co-Founder & Software Team Lead
MAYFly Aviation
As co-founder and software team lead of a UAV technology company, I ran the R&D software. I built the control and communications software (C# and Python) for one of Turkey's first 5G-enabled, GPS-denied UAVs, developed STM32 embedded systems, layered web apps with ASP.NET MVC/MSSQL/Entity Framework, and C++ smartwatch/wristband firmware on ESP32 — plus commercial products like a drone charging station, test platform and training kit, and delivered drone & software training at high schools and the T3 Foundation.

Embedded Systems Intern
Baykar Technology
Internship at Turkey's leading UAV manufacturer. Developed critical embedded-systems software for pioneering UAV platforms like the Bayraktar TB2 — coded hardware drivers in C and moved data between system components over I2C and UART.

Software Educator
T3 Foundation
Instructed high school students in Python during Robotics Coding training. Taught C++ to middle school students as a software educator, focusing on foundational programming concepts and practical applications. Trained over 200 students.

Software Engineer
Otoeko
Developed desktop applications using C# and .NET Framework WinForm with layered architecture. Automated desktop processes using AutoIt3, implementing clean code principles and efficient software solutions. Developed comprehensive software platform with license management and e-commerce integration.

Entrepreneur
Isopotamya
Founded and managed e-commerce business. Handled full-stack operations including web development, digital marketing, and customer relations. Managed all processes from product photography to website design to customer service.

Technical Service and Assembly Staff
Desa Bilisim Co. Ltd.
Worked on Computer Hardware Repair, IP Camera Installation, Telephone Switchboard Installation, Central Satellite Installation, Sound System Installation, Fire Alarm System Installation, and Fiber Optic Cable Termination.
Featured Projects
Innovative solutions and award-winning projects in UAV technology and software development
KAPGAN Combat UAV
National champion and winner of the "Most Original Software" award at Teknofest 2021 Combat UAV Competition — I was the sole developer of all three software units.


Armed Autonomous Strike UAV
Teknofest 2022 TÜBİTAK Open-Mission UAV finalist: a hexacopter that runs the entire mission — from takeoff to strike — autonomously. I coded its "brain", the main management unit.

FIRAT Combat UAV
My first UAV project (Teknofest 2019). I owned the server and inter-unit communication software; we placed 8th in Turkey, 3rd in Marmara and 1st in Bursa.

ABRA Autonomous Fire-Fighting UAV
A rotary-wing UAV carrying a water tank and flying autonomous routes, built for the fire-extinguishing theme of the Teknofest 2020 TÜBİTAK UAV competition.

Swarm Robotics (İLTER YAZILIM)
Teknofest 2022 Swarm Robotics finalist. As software team lead, I built the swarm control algorithm coordinating nano-drones over ROS.

5G-Enabled GPS-Denied UAV
One of Turkey's first private-5G UAVs able to operate in GPS-denied (indoor/factory) environments. We built one drone in 15 days; I owned the system architecture and the control/communication software.

Atmaca — LLM-Powered Autonomous UAV
An experimental UAV you command in plain (natural) language; a language model (Gemma 3) interprets the commands and turns them into autonomous flight.
Vision-Based Autonomous Precision Landing
A precision-landing system that uses AI to detect a helipad "H" marking and lands the drone exactly on its centre — continuously re-centring during descent so wind/drift cannot throw it off. My first serious international freelance job.

Award-Winning Ground Control Station
Professional C# ground control software that runs all combat-UAV missions from a single window and communicates latency-free with flight controllers over MAVLink.

Drone Training Kit
An open-source, assemble-disassemble training-drone product built at Mayfly. I worked on software and product development, and trained the instructors myself.

Autonomous Drone Charging Station
A solar-assisted, fully autonomous wired charging station that talks MAVLink. It was Mayfly's KOSGEB advanced-technology project; I designed the system architecture and wrote all the embedded firmware single-handedly.

Drone Test Platform
A rig where a drone's controller software and thrust system can be tested safely on the ground, without flying.

Smart Social-Distancing Wristband
My first industrial project, run solo from hardware to design to software. Built at Mayfly for Bursa Ekol College — an ESP32 + C++ wristband measuring distance to cm precision.

Otoeko Software Platform
A multi-component software-distribution platform combining an admin panel, a customer panel, a desktop manager, an online software market and an unattended installer.

Enneagram Personality Test Platform
A multi-tenant enneagram testing platform I built single-handedly: answer ~81 questions and it auto-generates a 30+ page personality report in the background. Sold to institutions via licenses and still live on bitatesti.com.

BTU SKS Management Software
A SOLID-principled desktop app I built for Bursa Technical University's SKS unit to manage events and produce statistics.

Namaz Akışı — Prayer Assistant
A fully offline, privacy-first, open-source and ad-free Muslim prayer assistant. Published on the Play Store and actively developed.

NoviceHacker Login Security
An access-security tool that ties logging in and using the computer to your own USB security disk; without the correct disk the keyboard/mouse lock and the system becomes unusable.

Interview Records (Plugin-Based CRUD)
My first corporate C# project, self-taught before I even started university. A CRUD application built on demand for a company, with a plugin architecture.
Quick Sale & Stock Program
A comprehensive sales and stock-tracking program I built for Otoeko on a job offer in my first university year — running file-based, with no database engine at all.

GPS-Based Wireless & Encrypted Object Tracking
A wireless object-tracking system I designed and built single-handedly as a first-year student — as a senior's graduation project. This is where I made my first XBee link.

Line-Following Robot
My first robotics team project, in the MATRO community during my university prep year, where I owned the embedded-systems coding.

Smoke Detector
A cigarette and smoke detector I built within BTU Young TEMA R&D that measures the gas/smoke ppm in the environment and reports it to a computer.

ardupilot-mcp — Flight Log Diagnosis Tool
An open-source MCP server that reads an ArduPilot flight controller's ".bin" black-box log and explains in plain language why a drone crashed or flew badly — grounded in a deterministic check engine, not AI guesswork.
Drone Charging Station — autonomous charging
A solar-assisted, fully autonomous wired drone charging station that talks MAVLink — in action.
View projectAchievements & Awards
My Teknofest rankings and other achievements
My Teknofest Rise
From a first attempt through an elimination to a Turkey championship and a startup final — setbacks are part of the road.
- 2019
First Competition
- 2020
ABRA Fire UAV
- 2021
Combat UAV
- 2022
Swarm Robotics
- 2022
Autonomous Striker UAV
- 2023
Entrepreneurship

BTÜ Trivia (English Quiz) - 3rd Place
Bursa Technical University · 2019 • Team "The Yıkıks" in an English general-knowledge quiz
Badminton Provincial Champion
2010 • From primary school
3C Programming Course Leadership
BTU 2019 • "Learning C Programming with Furkan Işıkay" - Solo Instructor
C# Programming
BTK Akademi · 2022
MATLAB Onramp
MathWorks · 2025
MATLAB Simulink Onramp
MathWorks · 2025
First Aid
2020–2023
Teknofest Achievement
2024
Trust & Proof
Numbers, client deliveries, organizations and live products — hover for the full name, click to see what I did.
Where I’ve Worked
Where I’ve Taught
Products & Client Work
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Get In Touch
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Autonomous systems. Enterprise software.
I’m a mechatronics engineer and senior software developer; since 2011 I’ve delivered autonomous UAV, real-time AI and computer vision, STM32 embedded and C#/.NET web/desktop work end to end. Have a project, or hiring a senior engineer? Message the assistant and get availability and a rough budget in minutes.
About Me
A quick look at me as a developer
My core area. I build high-performance desktop, web and cybersecurity software in .NET Core, shipping production-ready products at enterprise scale with multithreading and layered architecture.
My language for autonomy and AI. I write real-time computer vision with OpenCV and Faster R-CNN, and autonomous UAV mission software over MAVLink — I built the AI-detection unit of the Teknofest-champion KAPGAN with this stack.
The language of embedded, real-time software. I write firmware and I2C/UART hardware drivers on STM32 and ESP32, working close to the metal with low-level embedded C.
A solid object-oriented foundation. Object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms — a tool I use confidently in teaching and cross-platform work.
Mechatronic Engineering - Bachelor's Degree
Bursa Technical University2018 - 2025
Completed English preparatory year. Organized C programming course as sole instructor in freshman year. Active member of IEEE, Young Red Crescent, and Young TEMA organizations.
- Turkish— Native
- English— B1+ (upper-intermediate)
Experience
My Professional Journey

Senior Software Developer
Siberson Cyber Security
Building high-performance, cross-platform (Windows & Linux) cybersecurity software in .NET Core (6.0 & 8.0) on Clean Code and SOLID principles — Verifim (File Integrity Monitoring) and Verikor (Data Leakage Prevention). Alongside this I write kernel-level C++ — system-level monitoring/prevention components that hook into operating-system events. I maximized performance in concurrent operations with advanced multithreading, built comprehensive Robot Framework test automation on Windows Server and RHEL, and shipped professional installers with Advanced Installer.

Founder & Software / UAV Instructor
Softivation
Founded and run Softivation, my personal technology brand focused on software, UAVs and AI. I deliver autonomous UAV software (ArduPilot/PX4, system-architecture design and simulation), custom web & desktop application development, and TEKNOFEST competition consulting for clients. I also run one-on-one tutoring and training programs covering UAV control with Python, Mission Planner, C#, UAV communications, and AI & UAV simulation.

Co-Founder & Software Team Lead
MAYFly Aviation
As co-founder and software team lead of a UAV technology company, I ran the R&D software. I built the control and communications software (C# and Python) for one of Turkey's first 5G-enabled, GPS-denied UAVs, developed STM32 embedded systems, layered web apps with ASP.NET MVC/MSSQL/Entity Framework, and C++ smartwatch/wristband firmware on ESP32 — plus commercial products like a drone charging station, test platform and training kit, and delivered drone & software training at high schools and the T3 Foundation.

Embedded Systems Intern
Baykar Technology
Internship at Turkey's leading UAV manufacturer. Developed critical embedded-systems software for pioneering UAV platforms like the Bayraktar TB2 — coded hardware drivers in C and moved data between system components over I2C and UART.

Software Educator
T3 Foundation
Instructed high school students in Python during Robotics Coding training. Taught C++ to middle school students as a software educator, focusing on foundational programming concepts and practical applications. Trained over 200 students.

Software Engineer
Otoeko
Developed desktop applications using C# and .NET Framework WinForm with layered architecture. Automated desktop processes using AutoIt3, implementing clean code principles and efficient software solutions. Developed comprehensive software platform with license management and e-commerce integration.

Entrepreneur
Isopotamya
Founded and managed e-commerce business. Handled full-stack operations including web development, digital marketing, and customer relations. Managed all processes from product photography to website design to customer service.

Technical Service and Assembly Staff
Desa Bilisim Co. Ltd.
Worked on Computer Hardware Repair, IP Camera Installation, Telephone Switchboard Installation, Central Satellite Installation, Sound System Installation, Fire Alarm System Installation, and Fiber Optic Cable Termination.
Featured Projects
Innovative solutions and award-winning projects in UAV technology and software development
KAPGAN Combat UAV
National champion and winner of the "Most Original Software" award at Teknofest 2021 Combat UAV Competition — I was the sole developer of all three software units.


Armed Autonomous Strike UAV
Teknofest 2022 TÜBİTAK Open-Mission UAV finalist: a hexacopter that runs the entire mission — from takeoff to strike — autonomously. I coded its "brain", the main management unit.

FIRAT Combat UAV
My first UAV project (Teknofest 2019). I owned the server and inter-unit communication software; we placed 8th in Turkey, 3rd in Marmara and 1st in Bursa.

ABRA Autonomous Fire-Fighting UAV
A rotary-wing UAV carrying a water tank and flying autonomous routes, built for the fire-extinguishing theme of the Teknofest 2020 TÜBİTAK UAV competition.

Swarm Robotics (İLTER YAZILIM)
Teknofest 2022 Swarm Robotics finalist. As software team lead, I built the swarm control algorithm coordinating nano-drones over ROS.

5G-Enabled GPS-Denied UAV
One of Turkey's first private-5G UAVs able to operate in GPS-denied (indoor/factory) environments. We built one drone in 15 days; I owned the system architecture and the control/communication software.

Atmaca — LLM-Powered Autonomous UAV
An experimental UAV you command in plain (natural) language; a language model (Gemma 3) interprets the commands and turns them into autonomous flight.
Vision-Based Autonomous Precision Landing
A precision-landing system that uses AI to detect a helipad "H" marking and lands the drone exactly on its centre — continuously re-centring during descent so wind/drift cannot throw it off. My first serious international freelance job.

Award-Winning Ground Control Station
Professional C# ground control software that runs all combat-UAV missions from a single window and communicates latency-free with flight controllers over MAVLink.

Drone Training Kit
An open-source, assemble-disassemble training-drone product built at Mayfly. I worked on software and product development, and trained the instructors myself.

Autonomous Drone Charging Station
A solar-assisted, fully autonomous wired charging station that talks MAVLink. It was Mayfly's KOSGEB advanced-technology project; I designed the system architecture and wrote all the embedded firmware single-handedly.

Drone Test Platform
A rig where a drone's controller software and thrust system can be tested safely on the ground, without flying.

Smart Social-Distancing Wristband
My first industrial project, run solo from hardware to design to software. Built at Mayfly for Bursa Ekol College — an ESP32 + C++ wristband measuring distance to cm precision.

Otoeko Software Platform
A multi-component software-distribution platform combining an admin panel, a customer panel, a desktop manager, an online software market and an unattended installer.

Enneagram Personality Test Platform
A multi-tenant enneagram testing platform I built single-handedly: answer ~81 questions and it auto-generates a 30+ page personality report in the background. Sold to institutions via licenses and still live on bitatesti.com.

BTU SKS Management Software
A SOLID-principled desktop app I built for Bursa Technical University's SKS unit to manage events and produce statistics.

Namaz Akışı — Prayer Assistant
A fully offline, privacy-first, open-source and ad-free Muslim prayer assistant. Published on the Play Store and actively developed.

NoviceHacker Login Security
An access-security tool that ties logging in and using the computer to your own USB security disk; without the correct disk the keyboard/mouse lock and the system becomes unusable.

Interview Records (Plugin-Based CRUD)
My first corporate C# project, self-taught before I even started university. A CRUD application built on demand for a company, with a plugin architecture.
Quick Sale & Stock Program
A comprehensive sales and stock-tracking program I built for Otoeko on a job offer in my first university year — running file-based, with no database engine at all.

GPS-Based Wireless & Encrypted Object Tracking
A wireless object-tracking system I designed and built single-handedly as a first-year student — as a senior's graduation project. This is where I made my first XBee link.

Line-Following Robot
My first robotics team project, in the MATRO community during my university prep year, where I owned the embedded-systems coding.

Smoke Detector
A cigarette and smoke detector I built within BTU Young TEMA R&D that measures the gas/smoke ppm in the environment and reports it to a computer.

ardupilot-mcp — Flight Log Diagnosis Tool
An open-source MCP server that reads an ArduPilot flight controller's ".bin" black-box log and explains in plain language why a drone crashed or flew badly — grounded in a deterministic check engine, not AI guesswork.
Drone Charging Station — autonomous charging
A solar-assisted, fully autonomous wired drone charging station that talks MAVLink — in action.
View projectAchievements & Awards
My Teknofest rankings and other achievements
My Teknofest Rise
From a first attempt through an elimination to a Turkey championship and a startup final — setbacks are part of the road.
- 2019
First Competition
- 2020
ABRA Fire UAV
- 2021
Combat UAV
- 2022
Swarm Robotics
- 2022
Autonomous Striker UAV
- 2023
Entrepreneurship

BTÜ Trivia (English Quiz) - 3rd Place
Bursa Technical University · 2019 • Team "The Yıkıks" in an English general-knowledge quiz
Badminton Provincial Champion
2010 • From primary school
3C Programming Course Leadership
BTU 2019 • "Learning C Programming with Furkan Işıkay" - Solo Instructor
C# Programming
BTK Akademi · 2022
MATLAB Onramp
MathWorks · 2025
MATLAB Simulink Onramp
MathWorks · 2025
First Aid
2020–2023
Teknofest Achievement
2024
Trust & Proof
Numbers, client deliveries, organizations and live products — hover for the full name, click to see what I did.
Where I’ve Worked
Where I’ve Taught
Products & Client Work
No time to read? Summarize it in an AI.
Pick a question, open it in your favourite AI — it reads, evaluates and summarizes this site for you.
1What do you want to ask? (pick one)
2Which AI should I open it in?
Click — the AI opens with the question ready; just hit “send”.
Get In Touch
Have an autonomous UAV, computer-vision, embedded or .NET web/desktop project? Or hiring a senior engineer? You're in the right place for both — message the assistant and it'll get you to availability and a booking in minutes.
Phone
+90 850 242 21 60Location
Bursa, TurkeyThe assistant gives availability and books a call in minutes.
