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⚡ About me

struct Burak {
    std::string role     = "Senior C++ Engineer @ GlobalLogic";
    std::string location = "Kraków, Poland 🇵🇱";
    int         years    = 8;

    std::vector<std::string> day_job = {
        "Surgical robotics — Asensus (C++20 · ROS2 · DDS · QNX)",
        "FireTV on Kepler OS — Amazon (React Native · Kotlin)",
        "Camera SDKs — Verizon (C++ · GStreamer · SWIG)",
    };

    std::vector<std::string> side_quests = {
        "struggle.live",     // AI-gamified learning
        "agentnewsie.live",  // multilingual LLM newsroom
        "BeeScout",          // autonomous job hunter
    };

    std::string motto = "Reliability first, then ship it.";
};

🤖 Writing safety-critical real-time C++ for a remotely operated surgical robot
🏭 4+ years at Otokar shipping robotics & computer vision to the factory floor
🥇 1st place, Otokar Changemakers: mask & temperature control on Jetson
🧠 Building AI-native products end to end: LLM pipelines, agents, full-stack
🍓 Everything self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi 5 with Docker & NGINX
💬 Ask me about robotics, LLM agents, C++ build tooling

🚀 What I'm building now

🎮 struGGle.live

One topic in. The AI plans the rest.

An AI-powered, gamified micro-learning platform. Type any topic, from Kubernetes to Roman history, and get a personal roadmap:

🗺️ Editable plan graph: drag, connect and reorder the steps
⚡ Streamed lessons and interactive exercises
🔥 XP, streaks and a boss level at the end
👥 Learn solo or with groups, with a social feed and explore page
🧩 Multi-provider AI: Claude, OpenAI or local Ollama

📰 AgentNewsie

News written by machines, read by humans.

A fully automated newsroom for the people living in Poland. It reads the papers so you don't have to:

🕵️ Scrapes Poland-related news sites and X search results (RSS, HTTP, Selenium)
✍️ An LLM rewrites each story and scores how critical it is
🌍 Translates it into 7 languages: 🇵🇱 PL · 🇬🇧 EN · 🇹🇷 TR · 🇦🇿 AZ · 🇰🇿 KK · 🇰🇬 KY · 🇺🇿 UZ
📣 Publishes to Telegram and a public news site; Instagram and Threads bots built
🧑‍💼 Operator dashboard and a self-serve advertiser flow
🍓 Runs 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi (ARM, CPU-only, Docker)

🐝 BeeScout

Don't search, BeeScout. Your AI-powered, autonomous job hunter.

🧭 Finds jobs on the portals you choose
📝 Fills applications from a profile built from your CV
🔧 Self-heals: when a site changes, it proposes, tests and asks before fixing its recipe
✅ Human in the loop: nothing is sent without your approval
🔒 Local-first, bring your own key (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini…) or run fully local with Ollama

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🛠️ Tech arsenal

🧭 Career path

2016 ─┬─ Embedded Systems Lab, Kocaeli Univ.   C/C++ · image processing
2017 ─┼─ Evstek                                MSP430 · ARM · Jetson · OpenCV
2018 ─┼─ Havelsan                              Pardus Linux · PAM · LDAP
2018 ─┼─ Otokar  ████████████████ 4.5 yrs      robotics · computer vision · Go/C#/C++
2023 ─┼─ Luxoft                                C++ customer projects
2023 ─┴─ GlobalLogic ► Asensus · Amazon · Verizon          ◄ you are here

🏆 Industry highlights (click to expand)

Project	Impact	Stack
Surgical robotics · Asensus	Safety-critical control components and surgeon-behavior simulators for validating operations without hardware	C++20 · ROS2 · RTI DDS · QNX
FireTV on Kepler · Amazon	Ported FireTV apps to Amazon's new OS from a single shared codebase	React Native · TS · Kotlin · C++17
Camera SDK bindings · Verizon	Exposed ToF + RGB camera libs to Python; reproducible multi-arch Docker dev images	C++ · SWIG · GStreamer
ROKOS · Otokar	Robotic QC line: collision-free trajectories from 3D CAD data and digital twins	C++ · 3D vision
Mask & temperature control · Otokar	🥇 1st place, Otokar Changemakers; deployed plant-wide	YOLOv4 · Jetson
Passenger counting · Otokar	Thermal-camera passenger counting for buses at 90% accuracy	Thermal imaging · C++
AGV under-vehicle inspection · Otokar	Replaced manual under-vehicle quality checks with an AGV-mounted imaging system	C++ · Python · Django

📊 GitHub stats

📂 Open-source & learning repos

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Always happy to talk robotics, AI products, or self-hosting things on a Raspberry Pi.
Let's build something reliable. 🚀

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