Burak Altindal
Project Engineer at Cezeri Yapay Zeka Robotik Teknolojileri
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolBurak Altindal is a project engineer based in Istanbul with 15 years of hands-on experience bridging embedded systems, AI, and build engineering. He contributes to notable open-source projects like lxml (enhancing HTML/XML serialization) and Microsoft vcpkg (build and package management), showing deep familiarity with CMake, build systems, and Python internals. His career path spans aerospace and robotics projects, AI engineering, and software solutions, combining practical embedded firmware work with higher-level AI and project delivery. A team-oriented communicator who values collaboration, he also co-founded a community (Kolektif AI) to mentor and grow AI talent. Outside code, he’s a messaging geek and bicycle mechanic—details that hint at a pragmatic, hands-on problem-solver who enjoys fixing both systems and things. Currently pursuing a master’s in Industrial Engineering, he blends academic rigor with production-focused engineering.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Industrial Engineering, Master's Degree, Industrial Engineering at Galatasaray UniversityAdem Tolunay Anadolu Lisesi
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c-language10
postgresql10
python10
build-system10
data-serialization10
cmake10
soap10
serialization10
sql10
packager10
package10
cython10
lxml10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Build Engineer
Backend Developer & Build EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Burak's contributions primarily focus on managing and updating the vcpkg package manager itself. They demonstrate an understanding of build systems, including CMake and Make. Their work involves fixing build-related issues, enhancing the build process, and integrating new versions of dependencies like nss. This includes modifying build scripts (portfiles.cmake) to accommodate new versions and configurations of these dependencies, ensuring compatibility and proper integration within the vcpkg environment.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
lxml/lxml
Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
The lxml XML toolkit for Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Burak focused on enhancing the lxml library, particularly related to XML and HTML serialization. Their contributions included adding functionality for incremental HTML serialization, implementing methods to override output methods, and fixing script content serialization within HTML files. The user also added a new method for temporarily overriding the output method, and added tests to ensure the correct behaviour of the incremental HTML serializer.
pythonxmllxmlxsdxslt
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