Abdulkadir Elaldı

Awards and achievements

• 1st place in Türkiye — TEKNOFEST 2026 Hyperloop Development Competition · Technology Demonstration (Spectraloop)
• 3rd place in Türkiye — TEKNOFEST 2026 Hyperloop Development Competition · Performance (Spectraloop)
• 3rd place in Türkiye — TEKNOFEST 2026 Hyperloop Development Competition · Defined Problem Solving (Spectraloop)
• 1st place, Technical Design Report — TEKNOFEST 2026 Hyperloop · Performance Category Technical Design Report (Spectraloop)
• Mechanical System Development Award — TEKNOFEST 2025 Hyperloop Development Competition · Finalist (Spectraloop)
• 1st place in Samsun — TUA Astro Hackathon · CubeSat (Team Captain)
• Finalist — TEKNOFEST 2021 Unmanned Underwater Systems Competition (Provezza · Software Team Lead)
• 1st place — Deneyap Technology Festival · Robotic Coding, Erzurum (Team Captain)

Experience

1. Co-Founder & Head of Software · Kıyı Medya — 360° digital agency

   Sep 2024 — Present

   I was part of founding the agency and run its software unit; the agency has delivered more than 500 projects to more than 50 companies. I built 5 corporate websites end to end and am leading the development of a mobile app.

2. Software Team Lead · SEA STARS Team — TEKNOFEST Unmanned Underwater Systems

   Jan 2024 — Present

   I lead the team developing the mission software for an autonomous underwater vehicle: serial communication between Jetson Nano, STM32, and Arduino, plus YOLO / TensorFlow-based object detection.

3. Software Architect & Team Lead · Spectraloop Technology Team — TEKNOFEST Hyperloop

   Nov 2023 — Present

   I have led the 11-person software team for 3 seasons, coordinating the subsystem groups (sensors, CAN, navigation, BMS, real-time control, telemetry) and the Technical Design Report process. I developed the STM32 firmware that drives two Delta MS300 VFDs over Modbus RTU on a single RS-485 line.

4. Intern · Adapha Yapay Zeka Ar-Ge ve Yazılım A.Ş. (Samsun Teknopark)

   Jul 2026 — Aug 2026

   JWC Line Monitoring System: a Raspberry Pi 5 field device and a GStreamer video pipeline, with RapidOCR / ONNX Runtime on ARM reading all 6 fields in the field at 99%+ confidence; a FastAPI-based event engine and OEE calculation.

5. Founder · TesisBul.com

   Jun 2024 — Feb 2025

   I built an online booking platform for venues and facilities from scratch, and ran marketing and field outreach targeting more than 100 businesses in about 20 cities.

6. Software Team Lead · Provezza Team — TEKNOFEST Unmanned Underwater Systems

   Jan 2021 — Dec 2021

   In high school, I led the software team of an autonomous underwater vehicle; using Jetson Nano, Arduino, STM32, and YOLO / TensorFlow, we became TEKNOFEST finalists.

Education

1. B.S. in Software Engineering — 4th year · Samsun University

   Oct 2023 — Present

   Expected graduation: June 2027.

2. Faculty of Law (Undergraduate) · Atatürk University

   Jan 2022 — Dec 2023

   Transferred to Software Engineering at Samsun University under the Additional Article 1 transfer provision.

3. Graduate · Deneyap Technology Workshops

   Jan 2019 — Dec 2022

   Robotic coding, mobile apps, nanotechnology and materials science, and design and manufacturing.

Skills

Languages

C · C++ · Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · C#

Embedded systems

STM32 (HAL) · Raspberry Pi 5 · Jetson Nano · Arduino · CAN Bus · Modbus RTU / RS-485 · UART · I²C · Interrupts & Watchdog

AI / computer vision

OCR (RapidOCR / PaddleOCR) · OpenCV · YOLO · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · ONNX Runtime · TinyML

Frontend

React · Next.js · HTML / CSS

Backend

FastAPI · Flask · Node.js · Express · tRPC · Prisma · SQLAlchemy · ASP.NET Core

Databases

PostgreSQL · MongoDB · SQLite · Redis

Mobile

Mobile app development

Tools

Git / GitHub · Linux · systemd · GStreamer · WebSocket · Claude Code