Software Engineer — 12+ years building production systems. Currently working on low-precision numerics and machine-learning infrastructure in C.
15+ merged pull requests across four organisations. Click a logo to open that organisation's list of my merged pull requests.
 NASA F′ & cFS flight software · 4 merged |
 ROOT CERN · 5 merged |
 SciPy scipy & xsf · 4 merged |
 llama.cpp ggml-org · 2 merged |
Mostly numerical correctness and performance work: premature overflow in Bessel functions, a flood fill that hung or leaked past its outline depending on the brush alpha, a socket timeout that was configured but never applied, generation settings an inference server accepted but never reported back, and a transposed convolution that silently computed only the first batch.
mantissa — a low-precision numerics core for neural networks, written in C.
It stores weights and activations in narrow formats (fp8, fp4, and a block-scaled variant) and runs dense and convolutional layers over them with hand-written NEON kernels. Every performance claim in the repository is backed by a paired randomised measurement against a same-binary control, and results that did not survive that test are documented as rejected rather than removed.
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PhD, Computer Engineering — Hacettepe University, 2021 – present Thesis in progress. First paper published in Applied Sciences, 2026 — Concept Tree Learner (CTL). |
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MSc, Game Technologies and Computer Animation — Hacettepe University, 2021 adaptive-voronoi-mapping: adaptive Voronoi mapping for legible visualisation of very large labelled spatial point data. |
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BSc, Computer Engineering — Middle East Technical University, 2014 |
- M. T. Ertekin and B. Genç, "Concept Tree Learner (CTL): An Incremental and Interpretable Symbolic Framework for Binary String Rule Induction", Applied Sciences, vol. 16, no. 17, art. 8542, 2026. Open access, doi:10.3390/app16178542
- M. T. Ertekin and B. Genç, "User Oriented Visualization of Very Large Spatial Data with Adaptive Voronoi Mapping (AVM)", in Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems and Critical Infrastructures, Springer, 2023, pp. 515–536. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-31956-3_45
- M. T. Ertekin, "Çok Büyük Konumsal Verinin Kullanıcı Odaklı Görselleştirilmesi", MSc thesis, Institute of Informatics, Hacettepe University, 2020. In Turkish, full text
Software Engineer.
Before that, national-scale public-sector systems in .NET — both still in production:
- KYK, Turkey's student loans and housing agency — worked on a team that built 9 databases and 11 applications from scratch. Around 15 million users.
- Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) — employment and public-benefit programme systems serving 8+ million users.
- Flight-controller firmware — modified the C sources running on a Pixhawk Cube autopilot.