Alperen Akkurt

May 2026 – present · Abstatt, Germany

Bosch

Working Student — Developer

• Support research into robotics and electronics applications for ongoing engineering R&D initiatives.
• Develop an internal platform for analysing research papers with Liquibase, ParadeDB, Prefect and Streamlit.
• Integrate language models and embedding APIs into a RAG-based knowledge wiki to support answers grounded in retrieved material.

Nov 2025 – Mar 2026 · Stuttgart-Echterdingen, Germany

AHMETTUERK / IT AND STRATEGY CONSULTING

Working Student — Developer

• Contributed to an internal ABAP software solution and tool development at the interface between user consulting and development.
• Helped create and revise SAP training videos, applying SAP fundamentals, DAX and Microsoft Office.

Jun 2025 – Oct 2025 · Sindelfingen, Germany

Mercedes-Benz AG

Working Student — Developer

• Extended a Python script for processing and modelling JSON data exported from Mercedes AUTOSAR XML.
• Implemented export of the extended data models to MongoDB.

Sep 2024 – Feb 2025 · Abstatt, Germany

Bosch

Working Student — Data Engineer

• Contributed to a Python-based GenAI pipeline for generating requirement-based test specifications, including extraction and preparation of images from HTML exports.
• Used vision language models to turn image content into searchable text; supported user-test planning and evaluation, refactoring and automated tests.
• Extended a Python Panel dashboard for reusing test specifications, improving filtering and integrating customer-project data with a central specification database.

Feb 2024 – Aug 2024 · Yokohama, Japan

Bosch Corporation Japan

Intern — Engineering Excellence / Software Development

• Developed a Python Streamlit application for meeting-time analysis, integrating Microsoft Entra single sign-on and Microsoft Graph API.
• Configured a Red Hat server for an Automated Valet Parking project and extended AVP viewer and path-planning tooling.
• Produced technical documentation using Markdown and Mermaid in a docs-as-code workflow.

Jun 2023 – Nov 2023 · Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany

ETAS GmbH

Working Student — Data Engineer

• Extended a Python framework for extracting JIRA work-item comments and processing REST API responses.
• Loaded data into staging with Talend, normalised arrays and mapped the data to an entity–relationship model.
• Implemented historical data handling in an Oracle data warehouse using Slowly Changing Dimensions Types I and II; worked with SQL analysis and Power BI reporting.

M.Sc. Computer Engineering — RWTH Aachen University

Apr 2025 – present · expected completion Feb 2028

• Master’s studies in progress.

B.Eng. Computer Engineering — Hochschule Esslingen

Completed Feb 2025

• Bachelor’s thesis on efficient and scalable 3D scene representation with Gaussian Splatting.

Technical Assistant training

Sep 2016 – Jul 2017 · Stuttgart

• Technical training.

Gaussian Splatting for 3D scene representation

Bachelor’s thesis

• Developed and optimised a GPU-accelerated Gaussian Splatting pipeline for complex scenes.
• Evaluated the approach against rasterisation and ray tracing, exploring performance, mathematical foundations and potential automotive applications.

Automotive news analysis pipeline

University project

• Combined asynchronous Playwright data collection with spaCy, transformer models and TextBlob for entity and sentiment analysis.
• Used LangChain and Ollama for contextual analysis, Xata for storage and Power BI for interactive visualisation.

CPU design on an FPGA

University laboratory

• Translated instruction-set requirements into an ALU, registers, instruction decoding and finite-state control in synthesizable VHDL.
• Created testbenches and analysed waveforms in ModelSim; used Quartus II for synthesis, implementation, pin assignment and JTAG programming.

Embedded control with HCS12 / Dragon12

University laboratory

• Programmed register-level GPIO, timers, PWM and ADC in embedded C.
• Worked with interrupt service routines and structured peripheral initialisation and driver functions.

Microcontroller and keyboard builds

Academic and personal projects

• Built an Arduino Uno prototype combining temperature sensing with a C++ regression model for shelf-life estimation.
• Assembled and soldered a split keyboard, including microcontroller installation and firmware flashing.

Data engineering & analytics

Applied in professional work

• Python, SQL, ETL, Talend, Oracle, MongoDB, Power BI, DAX, Panel, Streamlit.
• REST APIs, data modelling, data historisation (SCD I/II), data migration and dashboard development.

Applied AI & research tooling

Applied in professional work

• LLMs, vision-to-text extraction, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Prefect, Liquibase and ParadeDB for research-information workflows.

Software & platforms

Professional experience and listed tool familiarity

• Python, C, C++, Rust, Java, JavaScript, SQL, Shell and ABAP; React.
• Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Docker, Git, AWS, Azure and Ansible.
• Microsoft Entra SSO, Microsoft Graph API, automated tests and technical documentation.

Machine learning & databases

Project experience and listed tool familiarity

• PyTorch, spaCy, Transformers, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn and NLP.
• PostgreSQL, MySQL and Xata, alongside professional work with Oracle and MongoDB.

Embedded systems & FPGA

University labs and personal practice

• Embedded C, VHDL, finite-state machines, ALU/datapath design, testbenches and interrupt-driven peripherals.
• Quartus II, ModelSim, MATLAB/Simulink and LTspice; soldering and firmware flashing.

Engineering foundations & collaboration

Coursework and practical collaboration

• Foundations of fault/error/failure analysis, SIL/DAL concepts, fail-safe design and V-model verification.
• Code and design reviews, systematic debugging, technical writing and international teamwork.