Ceyhun Özmutlu

Hardware Design Engineer with 4 years of experience in board-level hardware design for electro-optical, and defense systems.

Hardware Design Engineer at Rekrom Optoelektronik (2024-09 – Present)

• SoC-Based LiDAR & Electro-Optical Systems
• Defined and implemented the board-level hardware architecture of a Xilinx Zynq SoC-based LiDAR system.
• Designed a 10-layer high-speed PCB including DDR3L, RGMII Ethernet, QSPI Flash, SD memory, CAN, and USB interfaces.
• Developed mixed-signal front-end circuits including TIA, signal conditioning, ADC and DAC interfaces for optical signal acquisition.
• Applied signal integrity, impedance control, and power integrity practices across high-speed digital and sensitive analog domains.
• Designed high-power pulsed laser driver, optical receiver, and supporting control circuitry for LiDAR applications.
• Power & Motion Control
• Designed and implemented a centralized power management unit supplying 14 system boards.
• Designed BLDC motor driver boards used in LiDAR scanning mechanisms.
• Sensor Modules
• Designed MCU-based ToF sensor modules for robotic applications including blind-spot detection, presence sensing, and proximity measurement.
• Featured in MSI Turkish Defence Review (July issue, p.83).
• LiDAR Platform Re-Engineering
• Re-engineered an existing LiDAR platform exhibiting stability and performance limitations.
• Performed a complete PCB layout redesign and implemented targeted hardware improvements across laser driver, receiver, power management, and control circuits.
• Conducted root-cause analysis, bring-up, debugging, validation, and system-level optimization activities.
• Successfully restored stable and reliable operation of the LiDAR platform through hardware redesign, layout optimization, and system-level validation.
• Technical Leadership
• Provided technical guidance and design reviews for a junior hardware engineer, supporting schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, and debugging activities.

Hardware Design Engineer at Transvaro Elektron Aletleri (2022-09 – 2024-09)

• Designed and developed multiple board-level hardware designs for defense-grade electro-optical systems, from schematic capture to PCB layout.
• Designed boards featuring RS232 / RS422 / RS485, USB, CAN, VGA, and 10/100 Mbps Ethernet interfaces.
• Performed board bring-up and hardware debugging, verifying functionality at schematic and PCB level.
• Designed power delivery, regulation, and sequencing circuits, including negative voltage generation, filtering, and protection stages.
• Applied noise-aware layout and grounding practices during PCB design.
• Motor Driver Boards
• Contributed to the design of BLDC and haptic motor driver boards, including power stage and control circuitry.
• SoC Board Contributions
• Contributed to an existing SoC-based high-speed board design by adding and integrating supporting peripheral and interface circuits.
• Worked within predefined stack-up and routing constraints, ensuring compatibility with high-speed design requirements.
• Supported bring-up and verification of the integrated circuits on the SoC board.
• Qualification
• Designed hardware boards that successfully passed MIL-STD-810G environmental and mechanical qualification tests.

Long Term Intern at Transvaro Elektron Aletleri (2022-02 – 2022-09)

During this period, I worked on several entry-level PCB design projects, including:

• Fixed and adjustable voltage regulator circuits.
• ±15V symmetric voltage regulator PCB design.
• 28–30V DC to ±15V DC symmetric voltage regulator PCB design.
• STM32 evaluation board PCB design.

Intern at Transvaro Elektron Aletleri (2021-07 – 2021-09)

• Production exposure
• DFM awareness
• Observing test processes

Electrical and Electronics Engineering – Suleyman Demirel University (2016 – 2022)