Mahmut Demir
Robotics Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMahmut Demir is a robotics software engineer with 11 years of experience building perception, localization, and safety-critical systems for autonomous platforms, currently working on a stealth robotics project at Apple in the San Francisco Bay Area. He previously developed multi-LiDAR SLAM, map alignment tools, dynamic occupancy grids and LiDAR-based object detection at Honda Research Institute, and wrote embedded autopilot and power-management firmware for early military-grade UAVs at Baykar. His background blends academic research—award-winning work in topological place recognition and visual odometry—with hands-on production engineering in C++, ROS, and embedded C/C++. Comfortable across the stack from sensor fusion to embedded state machines, he also co-founded Istanbul’s first makerspace, showing a long-standing commitment to community-driven hardware and education.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts, Japanese Studies, Robotics, Liberal Arts, Japanese Studies, Robotics at Waseda UniversityNanodegree, Self-Driving Cars, Nanodegree, Self-Driving Cars at UdacityBachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, Japanese, Turkish
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Github Skills (32)
ros8
point-cloud8
pcl8
robotics7
computer-vision7
cpp7
autonomous-driving6
ply6
localization5
autonomous-vehicles5
gps5
garmin5
ieee4
udev4
earth3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mdemirst/Minik-Robots
Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 7 months
mdemirst/SSG-CPP
Feb 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 4 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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