Uğur Keleş

Uğur Keleş

Hardware Design Engineer
Power Electronics  ·  Embedded Systems  ·  PCB Design
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Featured Project

01 / Independent project

PCB Debug Lab

I’m building PCB Debug Lab: a browser based place to practice engineering decisions through authored cases. Inspect evidence, choose measurements and work through design, debug, review and board bring up scenarios.

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PCB Debug Lab selected cases: 5 V Sensor, 3.3 V MCU; Where Does the Current Come Back?; and It Changes Layers. What About the Return?

Experience

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Engine electronics development

Sep — Nov 2025   |   Istanbul

Analyzed turbine engine ECU requirements and investigated communication interfaces and sensorless BLDC motor driver architectures.

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Systems & manufacturing

Dec 2024 — Aug 2025   |   Istanbul

Worked on production process improvement across body and paint shop operations, including fixtures, welding practices and system commissioning.

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R&D engineering

Jul — Nov 2024   |   Istanbul

Contributed to engine and generator development, documentation and testing using Altium, STM32 and C#.

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R&D engineering

Feb 2023 — Jun 2024   |   Istanbul

Worked across PCB design, board assembly and troubleshooting, mechanical assembly and software development.

Projects

01 / Power electronics

Converter design projects

Upcoming project

Upcoming voltage mode buck and current mode flyback converter projects covering small signal modeling, magnetics, simulation and control design.

BuckFlybackControl
View on GitHub  →
02 / High speed digital

Zynq-7000 development board

A 10-layer board designed around a Zynq-7000 SoC. DDR3, eMMC, QSPI, Ethernet, USB, HDMI, MIPI CSI-2, CAN and other interfaces shaped the stackup, power distribution and routing decisions.

10 LayersDDR3Altium
View on GitHub  → Project documents PDF  ↗
03 / Engine electronics

Turbojet engine control unit

Six-layer mixed signal ECU for the TEKNOFEST Jet Engine Design Competition, combining sensor and actuator circuits, power regulation and RS-232 communication. The project reached the final stage.

ECU6 LayersFinalist

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04 / Industrial motion

Motor Control

A four-layer MCU-based board for belt-driven motion and vertical lift, using IRS2104-based H-bridges for 24 V DC motors. Encoder, limit-switch and IMU feedback support control, alongside USB to UART and Bluetooth. Dedicated buck and LDO rails address brownout and power stability in the redesign.

4 Layers24 VH-Bridge
05 / Embedded control

Climate chamber

A TÜBİTAK 2209 project built around STM32 temperature and humidity control, with Peltier, fan, display and USB to UART interfaces.

STM32Control
Project documents PDF  ↗
06 / Portable power

Powerbank PCB

A powerbank board design with battery charging, power delivery and USB connector circuits, documented in Altium schematics and PCB files.

Battery chargingUSBAltium
View on GitHub  → Project documents PDF  ↗
07 / Communication interfaces

USB to UART

A CP2102N USB to UART converter board, including the Altium design files, fabrication outputs and project documentation.

CP2102NUSBUART
View on GitHub  → Project documents PDF  ↗
08 / Design resources

UK Altium Library

My personal library of Altium schematic symbols and PCB footprints for reuse across hardware projects. Surface-mount footprints follow IPC-7351 land pattern and naming conventions.

SymbolsFootprintsIPC-7351
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09 / More engineering work

Other projects

Explore my board designs, embedded software and hardware experiments.

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Education

Istanbul Technical University

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering · Focus on power electronics, modeling and control

2026 — Present

Yıldız Technical University

B.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering

2020 — 2025

Beşiktaş Anatolian High School

High school education

2016 — 2020

Languages, Exams & Certificates

Languages

Turkish
Native
English
C1
German
B1

Exams

  • ALES Quantitative
    93.84/100

    2025/2 · Ranked 346th in Turkey

  • IELTS 2025
    7.0/9.0 overall
  • YDS 2025/2
    92.5/100

Certificates

  • Power Electronics & Modeling and Control of Power Electronics

    University of Colorado Boulder · Coursera

  • Advanced Digital Hardware Design

    Phil’s Lab · FEDEVEL

  • PCB Design: Life Cycle of an Electronic Board

    Mustafa Berk Aydoğan · XBOWTIE

Contact

Have an interesting hardware problem?
Let’s talk.

I’m open to discussing new projects, opportunities or ideas related to hardware design, embedded systems or power electronics.

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