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Nazif Küçükkoc-Design/Development Engineer

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Peißenberg, Germany

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Experience

Apr 2025 - Present

Self Employed

Self Employed

Position Summary
Self Employed at Self Employed
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Information Technology
Business Areas
Product Development
Quality Assurance

Providing services to cover the complete electronic product design process.

  • Requirement validation
  • Creating / re-writing / breaking down requirements
  • Requirement analysis and functional partitioning
  • Component selection and risk assessment
  • Component library management
  • Schematics design
  • Safety and reliability assessment
  • HDI PCB design
  • Design review against requirements
  • Readiness for manufacturing review
  • Readiness for testing review
  • Readiness for verification review

High Power Density BLDC Driver Module with MCU as controller:

  • PCB module with heatsink
  • L47mm x W36mm x H19mm compact sizes
  • Nominal input voltage: 48V
  • Sinusoidal continuous RMS current: 50A
  • STO, Digital input and outputs
  • Analog signal inputs
  • CANBUS interface
  • RS232/RS485 interface
  • Multilayer FR4 design (No aluminum PCB)

Integrated Mission Computer & Smart 5kW PDU

  • Featuring 3 different current limits, in total 63 power outputs
  • Featuring programmable current amplitude and on-time, in total 84 CC power outputs.
  • Ethernet, CANBUS, MIL-BUS, RS485 communication interfaces
  • In total 120 Open-Short, Open-GND, 28V-GND types discrete I/O interfaces
  • BIT and CIT solutions to monitor output voltage, current and board temperature
Apr 2025 - Present
Remote

Freelance Engineer / External Consultant

Self employed

Position Summary
Freelance Engineer / External Consultant at Self employed
Industries
Manufacturing
Business Areas
Product Development
Production

I completed several engineering jobs from industry in addition to my fulltime job and provided consultancy to companies for their product development process and design culture.

  • Development, manufacturing and maintain hardware of Smart Automatic Door system including 200W brushed DC motor driver, serial COMM and discrete control interfaces, and remote-control unit
  • VPX 3U Plug board as carrier board for SoM with Zynq-7000
  • Custom VPX backplane designs
  • Custom FPGA boards for IP core test setups
  • Consultancy to help companies to develop their first products
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Munich, Germany

Hardware Work Package Leader

AES Embedded Solutions

Position Summary
Hardware Work Package Leader at AES Embedded Solutions
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
Quality Assurance

Joined the team for an ongoing project during verification phase and supporting verification procedures and tests. Also contributing to the preparation of new hardware development process documentation.

Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
Ankara, Turkey

Engineering Lead

Skytronx Systems

Position Summary
Engineering Lead at Skytronx Systems
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Business Areas
Operations
Product Development
Project Management
Strategy
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Establishing the company's core principles and structure in response to the shifting demands of the market and employees.

Managing engineering efforts, writing and maintaining the company processes to help the organization in strengthening its skills and achieving its goals declared by the company's vision.

Leading product designs including mission computers for indigenous defense projects.

Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Munich, Germany

Hardware Development Engineer

Mynaric

Position Summary
Hardware Development Engineer at Mynaric
Industries
Space Exploration
Business Areas
Product Development
Quality Assurance
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Worked in electronic hardware team to design for space industry. Designer for the new generation products' electronic subsystems.

Completed major tasks are listed below:

  • Joining the first stage of the development for the electronic subsystem of next generation products which includes defining architecture and breakdown of requirements.
  • Responsible for designing and testing power boards of electronic subsystem for the ongoing product line.
  • Designing and testing of electronic ground support equipment for the ongoing product line.
  • Contributing to establish process documentation of the company's design and test culture.
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Ankara, Turkey

Hardware Team Lead

Artron Inc.

Position Summary
Hardware Team Lead at Artron Inc.
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Information Technology
Business Areas
Product Development
Quality Assurance
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Leading hardware team with five hardware design engineers

Responsible for development and verification of avionic subsystems subjected to military standards and Xilinx SoC and MPSoC based SoM products.

Completed major tasks are listed below

  • Responsible for and designer of avionic subsystems subjected to military standards with more than 1kW power output and multiple high-speed communication interfaces
  • Including preliminary design, component selection, schematic design, HDI PCB design, prototyping and board-bring-up
  • Responsible for development of avionic subsystems subjected to military standards. Including requirement analysis, check and approve schematic and PCB designs, verification plans
  • Responsible for and Designer of Xilinx MPSoC (Ultrascale+) SoM features Zynq Ultrascale+ SOC, 72 bit PS DDR4, 32 bit PL DDR, eMMC, USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet, Clock Generator and carrier board features HDMI Sink and Source, Display Port, mPCIe slots, SFP+, USB 3.0 and SATA interfaces
  • SoM design includes preliminary design, component selection, schematic design, HDI PCB design, prototyping and board-bring-up
  • Responsible for development of avionic subsystems subjected to military standards.
  • Including requirement analysis, check and approve schematic and PCB designs, verification plans.
Jun 2016 - Nov 2019
Ankara, Turkey

Senior Hardware Design Engineer

Artron Inc.

Position Summary
Senior Hardware Design Engineer at Artron Inc.
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Business Areas
Product Development
Quality Assurance
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Responsible for development of avionic mission store units subjected to military standards. Including, working with customer's system and software design teams, requirement analysis and breakdown, preliminary design, component selection, schematic design, PCB layout and route, design documentation, prototyping, board bring-up with test software debug, verification, manufacturing documentation.

Completed major tasks are listed below

  • Completed the development of avionic mission store unit which includes 6 different board designs and works as power distribution unit and communication interface for an indigenous platform with 1553B, Ethernet, CAN, RS485, RS232 and Discrete I/O interfaces.
  • Completed development of avionic mission store unit which includes 3 different board designs and work as a protocol bridge between 1553B, Ethernet, USB 2.0, High Speed RS485, RS232 and Discrete I/O interfaces.
  • Completed the development of avionic mission store unit which includes 5 different board designs and works as power distribution unit and communication interface for an indigenous platform with 1553B, Ethernet, CAN, RS485, RS232 and Discrete I/O interfaces.
  • Completed the development of SOM (board sizes 40mm x 50mm) features Zynq-7000 series SOC, 2xDDR3, eMMC, USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet
Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
Ankara, Turkey

Hardware Design Engineer

RST Inc.

Position Summary
Hardware Design Engineer at RST Inc.
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Business Areas
Product Development
Research and Development
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Responsible for development of acquisition and signal processing boards of indigenous Meteorology RADAR

Completed major tasks are listed below

  • Completed design and board bring-up of data acquisition and digital processing board with IF front-end, high speed multichannel ADCs and DACs, Zynq-7030, DDR3, gigabit ethernet, USB 2.0
  • Completed design and board bring-up of serial COMM interface board with RS232, RS485 interfaces
  • Completed power distribution unit for RF subsystem of RADAR
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
Ankara, Turkey

Hardware Design Engineer

Artron Inc.

Position Summary
Hardware Design Engineer at Artron Inc.
Industries
Aerospace and Defense
Business Areas
Product Development
Quality Assurance
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Responsible for hardware design (schematic and layout) and board-bring-up subjected to military standards. Including, schematic design, PCB layout and route, design documentation, prototyping, board bring-up with test software debug, verification, manufacturing documentation.

Completed major tasks are listed below

  • Responsible for hardware design and board bring-up of avionic mission store unit which includes 3 different boards and works as power distribution unit and communication interface for an indigenous platform with 1553B, Ethernet, CAN, RS485, RS232 and Discrete I/O interfaces.
  • Responsible for hardware design of CPCI-S 3U module features FPGA, PCIe, ARINC-429, ARINC 717, ARINC-736-3, USB Audio to analog audio
  • Responsible for hardware design of several test boards for custom SOM designs.
  • Responsible for PCB design of VPX I/O interface 3U plug module.
Oct 2010 - Jan 2013
Konya, Turkey

Design Engineer

Logiba / Basaranlar Muhendislik Inc.

Position Summary
Design Engineer at Logiba / Basaranlar Muhendislik Inc.
Industries
Manufacturing
Business Areas
Product Development
Research and Development
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Responsible for schematic design, PCB layout and route, board bring-up of power electronics for lighting electronics.

Completed major tasks are listed below

  • Responsible for hardware design and board bring-up of electronic ballast for HID and Sodium Lamps.
  • 35W-2000W power range Boost PFC, Buck, LLC and Full Bridge topologies used 4kV surge voltage generator for lamp ignition
  • Responsible for hardware design and board bring-up of electronic ballast for Fluorescent Lamps.
  • 10W-100W power range Boost PFC, Buck, LLC and Full Bridge topologies used
  • Research studies and prototyping magnetron control circuits for ignition of HID and sodium lamps with RF energy

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Aerospace and Defense, Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Space Exploration.

Aerospace and Defense
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Space Exploration
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Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Product Development, Quality Assurance, Research and Development, Project Management, Production, and Information Technology.

Product Development
Quality Assurance
Research and Development
Project Management
Production
Information Technology
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Summary

Design/development engineer who values critical thinking, correlation, and causality in electronic product design.

High level of expertise in schematic design, high-speed HDI, analog and power PCB design (Altium Designer), prototyping, board assembly, and verification testing.

Expertise in design requirements and development process and how to manage them.

Excellent understanding of PCB fabrication and mechanical aspects of the rugged units.

Also, familiarity with embedded software and FPGA requirements, functional partitioning and debugging.

Skills

  • Hardware Design
  • Electronic Product Design And Development
  • Altium Designer
  • Requirement Management
  • Test Equipment
  • Design For Testability And Manufacturability
  • Verification Tests For Power Quality, Environmental Conditions, And Emc (Mil-Std-704f, 1275d, 810g, 461f)

Languages

Turkish
Native
English
Advanced
German
Intermediate

Education

Sep 2005 - Aug 2009

Yıldız Technical University

B.Sc. · Electronics and Communication Engineering · Turkey

Certifications & licenses

IPC A-600

IPC A-610

IPC J-STD-001

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 10
Experience in Aerospace and Defense 10.5 y
Avg length 1 y 8 m
Longest experience 3 y 5 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 2 (Turkey, Germany)
Primary country Turkey

Expertise

Recent roles Self Employed, Freelance Engineer / External Consultant, Hardware Work Package Leader
Main industries Aerospace and Defense, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Main business areas Product Development, Quality Assurance, Research and Development

Qualifications

Highest degree Bachelor
Certifications earned 3

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Nazif is based in Peißenberg, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

Nazif speaks the following languages: Turkish (Native), English (Advanced), German (Intermediate).

Nazif has at least 16 years of experience. During this time, Nazif has worked in at least 9 different roles and for 8 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 7 months. Note that Nazif may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Nazif would be well-suited for roles such as: Self Employed, Freelance Engineer / External Consultant, Hardware Work Package Leader.

Nazif's most recent position is Self Employed at Self Employed.

In recent years, Nazif has worked for Self Employed, Self employed, AES Embedded Solutions, Skytronx Systems, and Mynaric.

Nazif is most experienced in industries like Aerospace and Defense, Information Technology, and Manufacturing. Nazif also has some experience in Space Exploration.

Nazif is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Quality Assurance, and Research and Development. Nazif also has some experience in Project Management, Information Technology, and Production.

Nazif has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Aerospace and Defense, and Space Exploration.

Nazif has recently worked in business areas like Product Development, Quality Assurance, and Project Management.

Nazif holds a Bachelor in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Yıldız Technical University.

Nazif has 3 certificates. These include: IPC A-600, IPC A-610, and IPC J-STD-001.

Nazif will be available full-time from September 2026.

Nazif's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.

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