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Mohamad Sawan
Spec sheet · Rev F, 2026 · 6 sheets
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Spec sheet · Rev F, 2026
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Robotics engineer. I write the software that lets machines see, decide and move, and the web and mobile apps people use to run them.
Description
I have been where robots meet code since I was fifteen. I started as programming captain at Pars Robotics, a team sponsored by NASA, Ford and Milsoft, and we took the Teknofest Autonomous Vehicle title and a stack of Turkish nationals, with top-10 finishes in the US and China. Then team captain at Think Tank: drones and ROVs, 3rd at Teknofest Underwater Vehicle Systems and the finals at Robogenç. Now Asimov, my university team, in Teknofest and Robolig. On my own, I won the Riders.ai drone competition.
Alongside the robots I ship production software. At KLE Bilgi Teknolojileri I work for an international client under NDA: I lead the frontend of a voice AI companion and built a computer-vision pipeline for a medical lab. I also co-founded an apparel brand, Drag-on, that reached one million lira in three months, and I run my own products, Jamaah and QTE Trainer.
It started with taking my toys apart to see how they worked. I still learn that way: open it up, find out how it works, then build my own.
Section 2
Bill of materials
| Item | Group | Parts |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Autonomy | ROS 2, sensor fusion with EKF and Kalman filters (GNSS, IMU, wheel odometry), SLAM, A* planning and Reeds-Shepp parking paths, Pure Pursuit, Stanley, MPC and PID control, lane segmentation and bird's-eye view, LiDAR and ZED stereo, mission state machines · FRC: roboRIO, WPILib, servo and DC motors, motor controllers, sensors, etc. |
| 02 | Perception | YOLO (Ultralytics), RF-DETR, U-Net segmentation, vision-language models, OpenCV, MediaPipe, OCR · PyTorch, CUDA, TensorRT and ONNX Runtime on NVIDIA Jetson |
| 03 | Hardware | Arduino, ESP32 and STM32 over serial · drones, a tethered ROV, a WLKata desktop arm · Proteus circuit simulation · soldering and hot-air rework at my own bench |
| 04 | Languages | Python, TypeScript, Dart, Lua (proficient) · C++, JavaScript, C#, Java, SQL (working) · C, PHP (familiar) |
| 05 | Web | Next.js, React, Vite, Node.js, Tailwind, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Three.js and React Three Fiber, WordPress |
| 06 | Mobile | Flutter, Expo and React Native, Firebase, Capacitor, kiosk-mode Android |
| 07 | Voice and bots | ElevenLabs voice agents, LiveKit, Gemini, speech-to-text and text-to-speech, Vonage video, n8n, Discord and Telegram bots |
| 08 | Games | Minecraft Forge mods (Java) and MCreator, Minecraft servers with plugins, Roblox Studio (Luau, roblox-ts), GTA V mods (OpenIV, ScriptHookV, Menyoo), browser games (React, Supabase), Palworld dedicated servers |
| 09 | Tools | VS Code, Cursor, PyCharm, Visual Studio, Android Studio, Arduino IDE · Claude Code, Antigravity · Git, GitHub, SourceTree, Docker, VirtualBox · Vercel, Google Cloud, Cloudflare Tunnel, Termius, FileZilla · PostgreSQL, DBeaver, Supabase · CUDA, Nsight · Servoy · PyQt, Streamlit, PyInstaller · WLKata Studio · Blender, Cinema 4D · Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, OBS, FFmpeg · Notion, Microsoft 365 · PowerToys, AutoHotkey |
Section 3
Service record
| Years | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2025–present | Robot competition captainAsimov, Istanbul Kültür University | Teknofest and Robolig: autonomous cars, ground vehicles and heavy-lift drones, and their object-detection pipelines. Semi-finals at Teknofest Autonomous Vehicle. |
| 2024–present | Full-stack developerKLE Bilgi Teknolojileri | Two years so far, all of it international work for a company in the Netherlands (name under NDA): lab vision, hospital management software and a voice companion for elderly care. |
| 2025–2026 | Co-owner, operations leadDrag-on | Apparel brand: 1,000,000 TL in revenue within three months. Website, admin panel, stock and sales monitoring, Trendyol operations. |
| 2024–2025 | Team captainThink Tank | Drones and a tethered ROV. 3rd place at Teknofest Underwater Vehicle Systems, finalist at Robogenç. |
| 2020–2024 | Programming captainPars Robotics | Sponsored by NASA, Ford and Milsoft. 1st at Teknofest Autonomous Vehicle, national titles, top 10 internationally. |
| 2023–2024 | Government internBaşakşehir Halk Eğitim Merkezi | Coordinated district courses, kept remote learning running for middle and high school students, and administered the student databases. |
| 2022–present | Independent developerFreelance | Work for several companies and startups: admin panels, a salon system, company websites, bots, browser extensions, 3D modelling and Lua scripting for Roblox studios. |
Section 4
Education
- 2025–present
- Istanbul Kültür University
BSc, Computer Engineering · Erasmus+ exchange planned - 2020–2024
- Borsa İstanbul Başakşehir Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi
Technical Informatics · valedictorian · 1st in the Erasmus+ selection (99% average) - Since childhood
- Self-taught
Taking toys and games apart to see how they worked, and never stopping
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Test results
- AwardsA long list of FIRST Robotics Competition awards, won with the teamPars Robotics
- 1stRiders.ai virtual drone competition, won a real droneSolo
- 1stTurkish national championships, Istanbul and İzmir (multiple)Pars Robotics
- 3rdTeknofest Underwater Vehicle Systems CompetitionThink Tank
- 3rdRiders Final CupSolo
- FinalsRobogenç robotics competitionThink Tank
- VariedTeknofest Autonomous Vehicle Competition, a different result each seasonPars Robotics · Asimov
- Top 10International competitions, United States and ChinaPars Robotics
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Honours
- Valedictorian
- Borsa İstanbul Başakşehir MTAL, class of 2024
- 1st in the Erasmus+ selection
- High school: 99% average, 100% speaking, 98% writing. Erasmus+ at university is next.
- An internship and a job before graduating
- Both while still in high school
- Freelance for companies and startups
- Several clients since 2022: admin panels, a salon system, company sites, bots
- My own startups
- Co-founded Drag-on (1,000,000 TL in three months); building Jamaah and QTE Trainer