Documentation First
Design decisions recorded before implementation begins. Architecture choices are tracked through decision documents and a staged methodology.
SYSTEMS · QUANTUM RESEARCH · OPEN HARDWARE
Mert Efe Şensoy
Systems Engineer & 2026 IBM Champion
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2026 IBM Champion. Systems engineering, applied quantum-simulation research, machine learning, embedded and real-time systems, health-tech, and open hardware.
SDSF STATUS DISPLAYSYSNAME MERTEFE
2026 IBM ChampionMERT EFE ŞENSOYTED UNIVERSITY · CENG ’27
SYSTEMSTATUSSTACKOMIActive DevelopmentKiCad / RustSuperconducTEDActive ResearchQiskit
mertefe@system — bash
PROFILE · MERTEFEAbout Me
I'm a Computer Engineering student at TED University and a 2026 IBM Champion, bridging mainframe technologies and modern computer science education. My work spans systems engineering, embedded and real-time development, applied quantum-simulation research, and health-tech innovation. As an IBM Z Student Ambassador and IBM-Z Club President, I connect enterprise computing professionals with the next generation of systems engineers, championing open-source, documentation-first methodology where every design decision is recorded before implementation begins.
How I Work
Correctness Over Speed
Particularly prioritized in embedded and hardware domains where post-fabrication fixes are expensive or impossible.
Open-Source Toolchains
Favoring reproducible development environments. Every schematic, every simulation, every tool: open and verifiable.
TED University
Computer Engineering · Business Administration Minor
Combining strong technical foundations with real-time systems, data structures, and business-oriented thinking.
Key Coursework
RTOSData StructuresAlgorithmsDatabasesWeb DevelopmentOperating SystemsSignal Integrity
Achievements
Honor StudentQuickdrawYOLOPull Shark
Advocacy & Eminence
IBM Champion2026 IBM Champion · IBM
IBM Z Student Ambassador · IBM Z Student Ambassador Program
President, IBM-Z Club · IBM-Z Club at TED University
Flagship Projects
Core FocusThe Open Memory Initiative
Open-source DDR4 UDIMM reference design
An open hardware project building transparent, reproducible DDR4 UDIMM module designs. The initiative now spans two repositories: the original OMI hardware design and spdr, a no_std Rust DDR5 SPD decoder and semantic linter published on crates.io under Apache-2.0. Emphasizes documentation-first methodology with architecture decisions recorded before implementation.
CORE FOCUSOMI
01Power/PDN, address/command/clock, data byte-lane schematics completed
02Validation plan written; ERC and pin-map checks pass, bench tests await a board
03Five teaching chapters (20 documents), from system context to signal integrity
04Active architecture discussions and contributor community
SuperconducTED
Fuzzy-logic noise modeling for quantum simulation
A research project building ensemble-based noise models for IBM quantum backends using Takagi-Sugeno-Kang fuzzy inference with interval type-2 fuzzy sets. Its research question is transferability: can noise predictions hold across IBM's calibration cycles instead of overfitting a single snapshot?
CORE FOCUSSuperconducTED
01Interval type-2 fuzzy inference layer feeding Qiskit Aer noise simulations
02Automated hourly calibration polling of IBM hardware via GitHub Actions
03No transferability result yet: membership functions untrained, ensemble members still identical
04Seven-stage pipeline from calibration ingestion to Qiskit Aer noise channels
Other Projects
More projects spanning embedded systems, web development, mobile apps, and machine learning.
01RL Trading Agent (BTC/USDT)mlLIVEA DreamerV3-style model-based reinforcement-learning research system. Combines an iTransformer encoder, a recurrent state-space world model, and an IQN distributional critic over a custom Gymnasium environment.
02MÜŞAHİTsystemsLIVEA personal briefing system for Turkey that runs overnight on one laptop and has a Turkish-language brief, with audio, ready by morning. Seven stages pull from 36 registered news, market, government and social sources, cluster stories with bge-m3, rate severity with Qwen2.5-7B, track multi-day arcs, then write the brief and voice its top sections. Every model runs locally, through Ollama and Piper TTS.03Go↔z/OS BridgesystemsLIVEA low-level interoperability lab calling z/OS system services from Go through assembly, exploring z/Architecture calling conventions, ABI compatibility, and endianness at the Go-to-mainframe boundary. Built under mentorship from an IBM engineer.04spdrsystemsLIVEA zero-copy, no_std Rust library and CLI that decode DDR5 SPD (JESD400-5) and lint it past the checksum, flagging modules whose timings or structure are internally inconsistent even when their CRC is valid. Published on crates.io as spdr and spdr-cli under Apache-2.0; the library can be embedded in firmware and UEFI code as well as run on a host.05BiotamawebProduction B2B manufacturing site built with Next.js and next-intl, internationalized across English, Turkish, and German, with server-side rate limiting, transactional email, and localized routing. Deployed on Vercel.06BeeLink CNwebA February 2026 MVP for home-care emergencies: simulated vitals over MQTT, threshold-based triage, ambulance dispatch and a hospital capacity service. Eight repositories, with one contracts repository as the single source of truth for every API and event contract.07FlyBatchotherThe Drosophila sugar-to-feeding circuit (501 neurons, MaleCNS v1.0) in a C89 engine with a COBOL driver, with identical fingerprints from x86-64 to MVS 3.8j. No IBM Z hardware used: the project does not have IBM Z access yet. MVS and s390x results are emulated (Hercules, QEMU).08EKARTEotherNo description available.09T-WebsiteotherNo description available.10taha-questionsotherNo description available.11m8c-rehearsalotherNo description available.12motusotherA transport-agnostic messaging seam for C++17 with a per-backend conformance suite and a Windows-safe AMQP-CPP backend13crypto-dreamerotherNo description available.14defence-industry-presentation-skillotherNo description available.15aftershockotherA complete, runnable command-and-control system for a fictional post-earthquake urban search-and-rescue exercise — deterministic mission verdicts, physics-derived sensing, live operator console16LexcelotherNo description available.17Valentine-Pomodoro-Developer-WebsiteotherNo description available.18MediBridge-FigmaotherNo description available.Skills & Technologies
Proficient
JavaScriptSQLReactTailwind CSSNext.js
Familiar
SwiftC++C#React NativeExpoPyTorchFastAPINumPy / PandasAssembly (s390x/amd64)scikit-learnCatBoostMatplotlibNode.jsSQLAlchemy
Tools & Platforms
GitGitHub ActionsKiCadJupyterVS CodeGreat ExpectationsWindowsiOSArduinoPostgreSQLDuckDBOllamaVercel
Experience & Education
Professional experience, leadership roles, and academic background.
Work
Junior Data Analyst (Part Time) – Revenue Management
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul, On-site
Built Python data infrastructure for the Revenue Analysis & Reporting Unit. Delivered the Dynamic Discrete Surcharge Prediction backend (Airflow-orchestrated ELT from Teradata and Oracle into a PostgreSQL medallion store, with a FastAPI service exposing features for a gradient-boosting surcharge model), and PNR collection-time analytics over ~96K bookings using DuckDB and chi-square testing.
Work
Embedded Software Intern
ASELSAN
Built a C++17 code-generation and mission-execution system for tactical messaging, in the Signal Processing and Embedded Software System Design Directorate. A spreadsheet-defined data model compiles to C++ headers through a canonical intermediate representation, behind a validation boundary that emits nothing unless the model validates in full. Publish-subscribe transport with resilience testing under broker failure.
Leadership
Young TÜSİAV Commission President
TÜSİAV
Leading the youth commission with focus on team management and organizational leadership within one of Turkey's prominent industry associations.
Leadership
Member
AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Active member of the world's largest aerospace professional society, engaging with aeronautics and astronautics research communities.
Project
Founder & Lead Developer
The Open Memory Initiative (OMI)
Open hardware DDR4 UDIMM reference design. Power/PDN, address/command, and data byte-lane schematics completed. Five teaching chapters (20 documents) authored.
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Platform Architect
BeeLink CN
February 2026 MVP for home-care emergencies across eight repositories: simulated vitals over MQTT, threshold-based triage, ambulance dispatch and a hospital capacity service.
Project
Lead & Research Architect
TED University
Leading a five-person research team building fuzzy-logic noise models for quantum simulation. Own the architecture, the calibration-data pipeline, and the decision record.
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Mentored Project
Go↔z/OS Bridge
Low-level Go-to-mainframe interoperability via assembly, under the mentorship of an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Böblingen. z/Architecture calling conventions, ABI and endianness; six exercises completed and verified on amd64 ahead of mainframe access.
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Mobile App Development
valentine-pomodoro
React Native Pomodoro timer with timestamp-based timing, offline-first architecture, and zero data collection.
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Embedded Systems Research Intern
ASTECH DEFENCE
Priority-based scheduling with mutex-protected circular buffers, deferred ISR processing, and FreeRTOS+UDP networking.
View DetailsCertification
IBM Z Day Speaker Advocate 2025
IBM
Recognized as a speaker advocate for IBM Z Day, demonstrating expertise in mainframe technology advocacy.
Certification
McKinsey Forward Program
McKinsey & Company
Completed McKinsey's program focused on essential professional skills for the future of work.
Certification
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
IBM
IBM's professional certificate in data science.
Certification
IBM Z Xplore – Advanced
IBM
Advanced track of IBM's mainframe skills program.
Certification
Network Automation Engineering Fundamentals
Cisco Learning and Certifications
Cisco certification in network automation engineering.
Certification
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Pilot Certificate
SHGM, Directorate General of Civil Aviation
Civil aviation authority certification for unmanned aerial vehicle operation.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Engineering
TED University
Focusing on embedded systems, data structures, and software engineering. Active in IBM Z TEDU, AI & Data Science Society, TEDU AERO, IAESTE, and ALECTED.
Education
Secondary Field – Business Administration
TED University
Minor in Business Administration covering marketing and financial accounting, combining technical foundations with business-oriented thinking.
Education
Student Mentor, CTL Mentor Support Program
TED University
Mentoring students through the Center for Teaching and Learning's mentor support program.
Education
Lab Tutor, CMPE 113 Introduction to Programming in Java
TED University
Led laboratory sessions for the introductory Java programming course.
Blog
Oct 15, 20265 min read
Qiskit's Client-Side Estimator Makes PEC Noise Learning Explicit
Qiskit's client-side Estimator requires explicit PEC and PEA noise models. Check their freshness, record learning times and account for calibration drift.
Oct 12, 20265 min read
Record a Calibration Capture Rate Before the Backfill Erases It
An archive of IBM calibration data missed 27 of 227 documents in a week. Why the figure had to be pinned before the backfill, and its cost in device states.
Oct 8, 20264 min read
CICS Never Starts an OpenTelemetry Trace, So the Caller's Sampler Sets Its Span Volume
CICS TS 6.3 writes an OpenTelemetry span only when the caller's sampled flag is set, and cannot change it. Find out who owns your SMF 1159 volume.
Let's Connect
Interested in collaborating on open-source projects, embedded systems, or web development? I'd love to hear from you.