Tolga Varol

Tolga Varol

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5.0
(40 reviews)
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ABOUT ME
Entrepreneur with many hats, focused on ES, HW and CV.
Entrepreneur with many hats, focused on ES, HW and CV.

I'm currently a full-time startup managing director with main focus in technology, where provide two solutions:

  1. driving behavior evaluation based commercial fleet management
  2. rolling stock based digitalized railway infrastructure inspection

based on our dual edge-AI camera and enterprise cloud platform.

I spend most of my time on managing developers or developing myself for the industrial design, AI engine, computer vision application, hardware (10 layer PCB with 3 subsystems), imaging system and camera, cloud application and a custom Linux kernel where I develop some of the basic kernel drivers as well business development and some communications.

Last year I had 5 masters thesis students in - AI, embedded systems and cloud - where I was their industrial advisor and indeed that was great fun for me. Now that I lack that opportunity, I joined Codementor to have similar engagements.

I hold a double masters in Embedded Systems with Innovation and Entrepreneurship from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Technische Universität Berlin where I held an excellence scholarship.

I'm bilingual in English and Turkish. Also can communicate in German, Spanish and French in a basic level.

You can check my Codementor profile here: https://www.codementor.io/@tolgavarol

Paris (+02:00)
Joined February 2021
EXPERTISE
7 years experience | 1 endorsement
6 years experience | 2 endorsements
8 years experience | 3 endorsements
7 years experience | 3 endorsements
7 years experience | 1 endorsement
8 years experience | 6 endorsements
5 years experience | 2 endorsements

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(40 reviews)
Jeniffer Ordonez
Jeniffer Ordonez
May 2024
He is great and super helpful at explaining his work and your doubts.
Feridun Fildis
Feridun Fildis
January 2023
Tolga is prompt and technically competent. Investigates subjects well and provides sound advice.
Jake Parker
Jake Parker
December 2022
Helpful! Responsive! Fast return, and reasonable pricing. Deserves every payment he gets and more! I hope to see his company succeed in the future.
John Ndorosey
John Ndorosey
November 2022
Tolga was extremely helpful and resourceful. Very much appreciate his expertise, help and professionalism.
Topuz Topuz
Topuz Topuz
October 2022
Good mentor. Understand very well how FPGA works. Recommend work with Tolga. Good communication throughout. Thank you Tolga
Jameson Parker
Jameson Parker
October 2022
Tolga went above and beyond for us! Extremely helpful!
Feridun Fildis
Feridun Fildis
October 2022
Tolga has a very good command of his field, and he has a friendly and helpful personality, easy to work with as mentor or a free lancer. He is timely and delivers what he promisses and more.
Ruairi Paxman
Ruairi Paxman
October 2022
Very proffesional and a great communicator. Helped me with a problem I have been stuck on for a long time. Thanks!
Jay Vaik
Jay Vaik
September 2022
Handled my issues with no problem and gave extra advice on my project
Amer Saeed
Amer Saeed
September 2022
Great Job, Great effort, deep knowledge
SOCIAL PRESENCE
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EMPLOYMENTS
CTO and Founder
DriveTrust
2018-10-01-Present
Working on DriveTrust dual edge-AI ADAS camera and web platform. Responsibilities are not limited with technology. For web platform I don...
Working on DriveTrust dual edge-AI ADAS camera and web platform. Responsibilities are not limited with technology. For web platform I don't act as a developer, rather my direct involvement is in other parts of the technology stack; AI engine, computer vision, device firmware, kernel, hardware etc.
Linux
ARM
Computer Vision
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Linux
ARM
Computer Vision
AI (artificial intelligence)
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Technical Project Leader
Brainflow AB
2017-11-01-2018-09-01
Lead a team of 4 people Developed +10 8/16-bit MCU PCBs, wrote firmware for them Set up procurement process Coordinated design, manufactu...
Lead a team of 4 people Developed +10 8/16-bit MCU PCBs, wrote firmware for them Set up procurement process Coordinated design, manufacturing and technology department timelines
C++
C
Hardware
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C++
C
Hardware
Embedded Systems
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Product Developer / Researcher
EVRY ASA
2018-02-01-2018-06-01
Joined EVRY Innovation Labs over a 4 month project - built a background in fintechs and economics - coauthored a white paper about Cash...
Joined EVRY Innovation Labs over a 4 month project - built a background in fintechs and economics - coauthored a white paper about Cashless Society - developed business concepts around Digital Payments - worked on a major central bank proposal.
Excel
PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
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Excel
PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
Microsoft visio
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PROJECTS
Cyber-physical System: Balance Training Gadget and Gamification
Entrepreneurial
2016
Scope of the project was to develop an inexpensive setup to give feedback to user in real time. A setup including a rubber balance board,...
Scope of the project was to develop an inexpensive setup to give feedback to user in real time. A setup including a rubber balance board, an ADXL345 3-axis accelerometer, an Arduino Pro Mini and a buzzer was developed. Then, for incentivizing the application; Processing IDE was used to draw a dart board shaped polar coordinate system for visualization and gamification. Sampled data was mapped to polar coordinate system and gave user feedback about their performance in terms changing angles of the balance board. Further work was planned as developing an Android application and connecting the gadget to over Bluetooth and app to an Android device. Developing a stand for holding on to during balance exercise and improving the system to make it suitable for clinic study.
C++
C
Bluetooth
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C++
C
Bluetooth
Arduino
Signal Processing
Game
Data Visualization
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Cyber-physical System: A Portable Smart HomeView Project
Entrepreneurial
2015
Please see the link. Result of the project - I prepared a patent application for my smart plug design. - Joined a startup incubator for ...
Please see the link. Result of the project - I prepared a patent application for my smart plug design. - Joined a startup incubator for pre-seed funding. - Won regional competition for senior student projects.
Android
C++
MySQL
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Android
C++
MySQL
phpMyAdmin
Arduino
Android Studio
Raspberry Pi
Hardware
Python 2
Electrical Engineering
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