Summary
Erkan Altan is a senior embedded software engineer with a proven track record across medical devices, aerospace-grade hardware, and IoT systems. He has led software teams and delivered safety-critical solutions, including bootloader development, RTOS tuning, and design-control compliant work for major medical devices. His hands-on expertise spans CAN, BLE, Wi‑Fi, LwM2M, I2C/SPI, and embedded Linux on MCU/SoM platforms, with experience across FreeRTOS, Zephyr, and ThreadX. Recently he earned certifications in Deep Learning and AI and is actively exploring AI-driven capabilities for embedded systems. Based in Basel, Switzerland, his career includes roles at Abbott, Hill-Rom, NeuroLogica, ARTIDIS, and multiple embedded systems vendors. A cross-disciplinary thinker with an Aeronautical Engineering background, he translates complex requirements into robust, auditable, and scalable solutions while thriving on collaboration and continuous learning.
5 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Aeronautical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Aeronautical Engineering at İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
Turkish, German, English