Robotics Software Engineer

Ömer Mersin

SLAM & Perception for Autonomous Systems

Robotics software engineer building real-time localization, perception, and guidance pipelines for autonomous aerial and ground platforms. Currently at Dronetools in Sevilla, Spain.

Robotics Software Engineer SLAM Engineer Perception Engineer
C++ Python ROS 2 Sensor Fusion Real-time Systems LiDAR-IMU Fusion
Open to Robotics Roles
Netherlands (NL) Switzerland (CH) Germany (DE)
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About Me

Ömer Mersin

2+ Years

Robotics Software Engineering

I design and ship autonomy software for robots operating in GPS-denied and dynamic environments. My focus is SLAM, state estimation, navigation, and perception pipelines that must run reliably in real time.

At Dronetools, I work on autonomous drone navigation and operator systems that connect low-level control, sensor fusion, and mission workflows. I also competed in TEKNOFEST Robotaxi for 3 consecutive years with Team Mekatek, improving the system every year and helping the team reach 3rd place plus Best Team Spirit Award. I am open to relocation for robotics roles in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany.

Robotics Skill Matrix

Core Robotics Engineering

C++ Python ROS 2 Real-time Systems Multithreaded Pipelines Docker

Perception & SLAM

LiDAR-Inertial Odometry FAST-LIO Sensor Fusion OpenCV YOLO-based Detection Video Stabilization & Tracking

Navigation, Control & Deployment

3D ESDF Planning Autonomous Decision-Making MAVLink (PX4/ArduPilot) GStreamer/RTSP CUDA + NVIDIA Jetson WPF/Qt Operator Tools
Flagship Work

SLAM & Autonomy Portfolio

Four flagship and award-winning systems that demonstrate end-to-end robotics capability: perception, real-time mapping, planning, controls, and deployable software architecture.

LIONav SLAM mapping output GIF
Flagship Project

LIONav

End-to-end autonomous drone navigation stack for GPS-denied flight in caves, mines, tunnels, and industrial interiors. Covers every layer from sensor fusion and GPU mapping to 6-level autonomy management, Smart RTL, MAVLink flight control, a custom binary comms protocol, and a cross-platform ground station — all designed, architected, and implemented solo.

Three-pillar architecture: autonomous flight stack, multi-session relocalization for repeat inspections, and a cross-platform Qt6 GCS (Linux · Windows · Android)
Always-on Smart RTL — weighted A* with clearance-aware costs, 0.5 s replan cycle, dynamic prefix + cached static corridor; immediately executable on comms loss
6-level autonomy hierarchy (Full Exploration → Failsafe) with automatic degradation, independent safety watchdog, ESDF-filtered velocity gate, and stream-health failsafe trigger
Custom LION binary UDP protocol with packet fragmentation/reassembly — streams 50 M-point clouds to GCS over constrained wireless links with bi-directional command plane
Multi-session relocalization: Scan Context retrieval + ICP/NDT refinement loads prior map bundles for repeat-inspection workflows without GPS or ground truth

Autonomy Depth

Sensor fusion → SLAM → planning → safety → FC execution in a single deployable stack

GCS Rendering

Up to 50M points live on constrained hardware over custom binary protocol

Operational Resilience

Runs under comms loss, degraded sensors, and GPS-denied environments by design

ROS 2 Humble C++17 FAST-LIO nvblox CUDA ESDF GTSAM iSAM2 Scan Context Smart RTL 6-Level Autonomy Custom Binary Protocol Qt6 Cross-Platform GCS MAVLink / ArduPilot WebGPU / WebGL2
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Smart Gimbal Manager Interface
Flagship Project

Smart Gimbal Manager

Professional-grade UAV ground control station (GCS) for real-time gimbal, payload, telemetry, video, and mapping workflows across surveillance, inspection, and emergency operations.

Multi-protocol gimbal control (BaseCam, Viewlink, DJI) with clean abstraction layers
Dual map/video operations with camera footprint projection and terrain intersection tools
Low-latency telemetry + video pipeline with recording, replay, and geospatial export workflows

Platform

Windows WPF desktop app on .NET 6 (C#)

Architecture

MVVM + modular solution structure (40+ projects)

Ops Scope

Gimbal, mapping, video, cloud telemetry, and mission tooling

C# .NET 6 WPF MVVM GMap.NET ArcGIS/Cesium MQTT FFmpeg + OpenCV
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Flagship Project

Video Stabilization Engine

Real-time, GPU-accelerated video stabilization and ultra-low-latency RTSP streaming library with seamless passthrough or processing modes, optimized for NVIDIA Jetson edge deployments.

Dual-mode RTSP: zero-processing passthrough or full processing with hot switching
GPU stabilization, roll correction (Canny + Hough), and configurable smoothing modes
DeepStream detection/tracking and Jetson hardware-encoder path for minimum latency

Latency

~10-20 ms passthrough, ~50-100 ms processing mode

Architecture

gstd + gst-interpipe with instant mode switching

Robotics Use

Stabilized FPV/perception streams for drones and robots

C++17 OpenCV CUDA GStreamer + gstd gst-interpipe DeepStream RTSP NVIDIA Jetson
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TEKNOFEST Robotaxi Team Mekatek
Award-Winning Project

TEKNOFEST Robotaxi (Team Mekatek)

Autonomous vehicle competition project where our team achieved 3rd place and the Best Team Spirit Award. I contributed to real-time perception and sensor-fusion decision making under track constraints.

Drivable-area detection using image-processing pipelines
Label/sign detection with YOLO for real-time scene understanding
Sensor-fusion based autonomous driving and decision logic
Competed 3 years in a row and improved system robustness each season

Awards

3rd Place + Best Team Spirit Award

Perception

Drivable area + YOLO label detection

Autonomy

Multi-sensor fusion for driving decisions

Autonomous Driving Image Processing YOLO Sensor Fusion Real-time Decision Making
Team Proof Competition

Additional robotics work and experiments are available on GitHub.

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Open to SLAM, robotics perception, and autonomous navigation opportunities across Europe.

Available for NL / CH / DE roles

I am actively exploring robotics software roles focused on autonomy, localization, and navigation in the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany. Open to relocation and remote collaboration in European time zones.

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