Toygar Dündaralp
Technical Founder at MeshGrid
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolToygar Dündaralp is a technical founder and seasoned full-stack engineer with 11 years of professional experience and 23+ years of cross-disciplinary practice in software, hardware and system design. He architects end-to-end IoT and web systems—from ESP32/Arduino and Raspberry Pi prototypes to scalable cloud APIs and real-time dashboards—prioritizing reliability, low-latency communication (MQTT/WebSocket) and maintainability. His background includes leading IoT automation and payment/fitness platforms used by thousands, plus award-winning hackathon projects spanning IoT, fintech and AI. He has deep hands-on skills across embedded firmware, Linux server ops, PHP/Python/Node APIs and iOS media tooling, and has contributed notable Swift libraries for video playback and YouTube parsing. Based in Istanbul, he blends an engineer’s precision with a maker’s creativity, often bridging physical devices and user-facing apps in novel ways. Outside work he pairs a curiosity for life sciences with continuous open-source tinkering, reflecting a habit of exploring adjacent domains that inform his product work.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Programlama, Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Programlama at Beykent University
Github Skills (18)
parserator10
parser10
ios10
youtube-api10
xctest10
nsl10
media-playback10
avfoundation10
video-player10
playback10
mobile10
videojs10
swift10
unit-testing9
ui-design9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mojilala/YoutubeSourceParserKit
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
YouTube link parser for swift
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:49 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Toygar primarily focused on developing and testing a Swift-based YouTube link parser for iOS. Their contributions include implementing a `Youtube` class to extract YouTube IDs and retrieve video information. They added test cases to validate the functionality of the parser, ensuring accurate parsing of URLs and retrieval of video details, including quality and type. They also refactored existing tests to be more clear and maintainable and added documentation. Finally they integrated GCD for background operations.
parserswiftyoutube
sahin/VideoSplashKit
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
VideoSplashKit - UIViewController library for creating easy intro pages with background videos
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:43 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Toygar primarily worked on the iOS application's core features. They added the necessary project folders. Furthermore, they made modifications to `VideoSplashViewController.swift`, `AppDelegate.swift`, `VideoCutter.swift`, and `ViewController.swift`, implementing video playback functionality, UI integration, and addressing background mode issues. The changes suggest the user's focus on refining the video splash screen's features, lifecycle management, and performance.
uiviewcontroller
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