Mete Cirit
Software Architect at Autoware Foundation
Türkiye, Turkey
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Top SchoolMete Cirit is a software architect with 11 years of experience specializing in autonomous vehicles, computer vision, SLAM and machine learning, currently shaping architecture at the Autoware Foundation. He is a practical C++ and Python engineer fluent in ROS/ROS2, OpenCV, PCL, PyTorch/TensorFlow and GPU tooling (CUDA, Thrust), with hands-on experience tuning SLAM and planning stacks like Ceres and OMPL. His career spans applied roles from parsing raw LiDAR/IMU streams and building visualization GUIs to leading autonomy teams at Leo Drive, giving him a rare blend of low-level sensor plumbing and system-level orchestration. Trained in mechatronics and Udacity’s self-driving program, he pairs robotics fundamentals with production-grade software design. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves quickly from prototype to robust pipeline, often surfacing pragmatic algorithmic tweaks that improve real-world sensor robustness.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelors, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi / Yildiz Technical UniversitySelf Driving Car Engineer, Autonomous Cars, Self Driving Car Engineer, Autonomous Cars at Udacity
Turkish, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (107)
simulator10
socketcan10
foundation-models10
elevation10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
robotics10
msg10
autonomous-vehicles10
lidar10
documentation10
baidu10
simulation10
ieee10
driver10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
autowarefoundation/autoware_internal_msgs
Feb 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:23 reviews, 24 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 2 months
autowarefoundation/autoware-spell-check-dict
Nov 2024 - Jun 2026
A dictionary for spell-checking Autoware-specific terms in documentation and code.
Contributions:18 reviews, 19 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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