Gökhan Özdemir
Engineering Manager XR at Qualcomm
Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolGökhan Özdemir is an engineering manager specializing in XR with nine years of experience building AR/VR systems across industry leaders like Qualcomm, Wikitude, and Porsche Informatik. He combines hands-on SDK and full-stack development experience with people-first leadership, shaped by a background that spans paramedic service to executive MBA studies. Based in Salzburg, he has led teams delivering production AR toolchains and XR integrations while keeping a practical focus on shipping reliable, user-centered features. His academic grounding in game and simulation engineering and augmented reality informs a systems-level approach to immersive product design. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who values mentorship and resilient team culture as much as technical excellence. An introspective thinker (echoed in his GitHub bio), he brings curiosity and steady judgment to high-impact XR challenges.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA Strategic Leadership, Executive MBA Strategic Leadership at Valar InstituteInformatics, Informatics at HTBLuVA SalzburgMaster of Science - MSc Game and Simulation Engineering & Lead, Master of Science - MSc Game and Simulation Engineering & Lead at Fachhochschule Salzburg
German, English, Turkish
Github Skills (27)
input-method10
keyboard9
kotlin9
kotlin-android9
mask8
android8
pyrogram7
telegram-bot7
zigbee6
home-automation5
home-assistant5
privacy5
telegram5
python5
postgresql5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kisekinopureya/dotfiles
Dec 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:15 pushes in 2 years 2 months
kisekinopureya/vendor_foss
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
A set of FOSS applications to include in an AOSP
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes in 2 months
fossaosp
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