Isikcan Yilmaz
PHD Researcher at Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolIsikcan Yilmaz is a PhD researcher in communication networks at TU Dresden with 11 years of hands-on experience across embedded systems, low-level software, and UNIX-like environments. Previously a firmware engineer at Apple, he shipped seven consumer audio products and developed bootloaders, drivers for battery ICs, and tools spanning C/C++, Python and Bash. His research and industry work bridge mesh/IoT networking and information-centric networks with practical firmware constraints, reflecting a rare combination of systems research and product delivery. Early roles in computer architecture, wireless intrusion tooling, and web/backend work give him broad systems perspective from silicon to network protocols. He is based in Dresden and maintains an active public profile and codebase, signaling a commitment to reproducible research and open engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who enjoys “fiddling” with the lowest layers of systems and turning those experiments into shipped products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Drexel University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (23)
software-update10
internet10
coap9
freertos9
rtos9
iot9
riot-os8
playing8
internet-of-things8
staging7
wireshark6
openwrt6
generative-art6
p5js6
vim5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IsikcanYilmaz/light_cube
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:112 pushes, 5 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 10 months
IsikcanYilmaz/market_scraper
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:359 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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