Sami Akgün
Senior Robotics Software Engineer at Promise Robotics
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSami Akgün is a Senior Robotics Software Engineer with 10 years of experience combining research-grade algorithms and production robotics to deploy large-scale autonomous systems. Based in Toronto, he has led fleet-wide ROS1-to-ROS2 migrations, real-time performance fixes, and motion-planning innovations that kept thousands of robots running with zero downtime and directly improved pick throughput. His background spans hands-on sensor fusion, tactile-informed grasping, admittance/impedance control, and behavior cloning used for residual RL, reflecting a rare blend of control theory, perception, and systems engineering. Sami has repeatedly bridged academia and industry—from award-winning undergraduate hardware projects and novel Kalman-filter research to shipping drivers and real-time drivers in commercial fleets—so he excels at turning cutting-edge research into reliable fielded products. An interesting detail: he’s resolved low-level DDS and scheduling issues in ROS2 deployments, a behind-the-scenes skill that materially stabilised production robot fleets.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityMaster's of Applied Science (MaSC) Systems Design Engineering, Master's of Applied Science (MaSC) Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (49)
robotics10
depthai10
robot10
camera10
moveit10
ros-driver10
interprocess-communication10
ros10
middleware9
ipc9
localization9
yarp9
slam9
computer-vision9
robot-control8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samialperen/oko_slam
Dec 2018 - May 2019
This repository contains all the documentation, code and design of the robot as part of my bachelor thesis. The main purpose of the robot is to extract map of the unknown indoor environments. It is an alternative and affordable platform to study on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM).
Contributions:116 commits, 1 branch in 4 months
localization
samialperen/boustrophedon_cellular_decomposition
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:27 commits in 1 month
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