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01 About

I'm a control and GNC engineer with hands-on experience across the full loop: controller design in MATLAB/Simulink, code generation for embedded targets, and commissioning on real hardware.

At Roketsan I designed and validated controllers for a missile seeker gimbal, from Simulink models through Embedded Coder to Hardware-in-the-Loop testing. At the Munich climate-tech start-up Phlair I worked on the industrial side: Beckhoff PLC programming in TwinCAT, sensor integration, and the Python and database infrastructure behind test-bench monitoring.

My M.Sc. thesis at TUM covers fault-tolerant control of propulsive spacecraft. I built a modular Python GNC framework for landing trajectory optimisation and actuator-fault analysis of a lunar lander.

Focus: Control, GNC, model-based design
Education: M.Sc. Aerospace, TU Munich (expected 12/2026)
Based in: Munich, Germany
Languages: English, German (B1), Turkish

02 Experience

Working Student — Mechatronics & Automation

Phlair GmbH · Munich, Germany

08/2025 – 05/2026

Start-up developing a modular direct air capture process based on electrochemical salt splitting.
- Developed TwinCAT 3.1 (Structured Text) control logic for an absorber test bench, from I/O mapping through commissioning.
- Built electrical cabinets and wired RS-485 industrial sensors to Beckhoff I/O terminals from circuit diagrams, then calibrated them over serial protocols.
- Built an automated PLC-to-InfluxDB data pipeline in Python (PyADS), replacing manual measurement logging.
- Designed real-time Grafana/InfluxQL dashboards the team used to monitor test-bench runs live.
- Deployed the database, backup and monitoring stack on Docker, Proxmox and Linux, and built a web app for the cell database.
- TwinCAT 3.1
- Beckhoff PLC
- RS-485
- Python
- InfluxDB
- Grafana
- Docker
- Proxmox
Control Systems Engineer

Roketsan Inc. · Ankara, Turkey

08/2023 – 05/2024
- Designed PID and robust controllers for a high-precision missile seeker gimbal, covering pointing and line-of-sight stabilisation across the operating envelope.
- Built and validated dynamic models in MATLAB/Simulink, tuning controllers against measured plant response.
- Generated Embedded C from Simulink models via Embedded Coder and deployed it onto Xilinx hardware targets.
- Ran real-time and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) test campaigns on xPC Target rigs to qualify controller performance before integration.
- Developed a MATLAB GUI that automated calibration of resolver bias and electrical angle alignment.
- MATLAB/Simulink
- Embedded Coder
- Robust Control
- HIL
- xPC Target
- Xilinx

03 Engineering Projects

Master's Thesis · TU Munich · 2025–2026

Fault-Tolerant Control of Propulsive Spacecraft

Built a modular Python GNC framework (~23,000 lines) for landing trajectory optimisation and actuator-fault analysis of an Apollo-class lunar lander.
Designed it as a shared core engine (vehicle and actuator models, optimal-control problem formulation, attainable-moment envelopes) reused by nine self-contained study packages.
Ran automated fault-injection and fault-onset campaigns across 16 fault modes and multiple initial-condition regimes, with result tables and figures generated automatically.

Python
Trajectory Optimisation
Fault-Tolerant Control
GNC

Semester Thesis · Institute of Flight System Dynamics, TUM · 2024–2025

Automated Signal-Integrity Check Toolbox

Extended an automated verification toolbox with MATLAB OOP classes and scripted Simulink model generation.
Implemented V-Model-based testing with code-compliance checking (Mrails) and reusable test-harness structures.

MATLAB OOP
Simulink
V-Model
Test Harnesses

04 Education

M.Sc. Aerospace

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

10/2023 – 12/2026
expected

Provisional grade 2.3 · 92 ECTS

Control & GNC: Advanced Control · Nonlinear Control · Optimal Control and Decision Making · Model Reference Adaptive Control · System Identification · Flight Dynamics, Stability and Control
Software & Systems: Advanced Programming (C++) · Real-Time Systems · Introduction to ROS · MATLAB/Simulink for CAE
Labs: Flight Control System Lab · Cyber-Physical Systems Lab: Autonomous Applications

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering

Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara

2017 – 2023

GPA 3.33 / 4.0 · German equivalent 1.7 (“gut”)

Top 10–15% of the department.
Minor in Mechatronics (Robotics, Computer Science, Logic Design).
Multiple “High Honor” and “Honor” placements.
Relevant coursework: Control Systems, Feedback Systems, Mechatronic Design, Embedded Systems Development.

05 Skills

Control & GNC

PID
Robust Control
Nonlinear Control
Adaptive (MRAC)
LQR / MPC
Lyapunov Methods
Fault-Tolerant Control
System Identification
Trajectory Optimisation
6-DOF Flight Dynamics

Modelling & Test

MATLAB
Simulink
Embedded Coder
Model-Based Design
SIL / HIL Testing
xPC Target
V-Model Test Harnesses

Programming

Python (NumPy, SciPy, PyADS)
C
Embedded C
C++
MATLAB OOP
Structured Text

Industrial Automation

TwinCAT 3.1
Beckhoff PLC
EtherCAT
RS-485 & Serial Protocols
Sensor Integration & Calibration
Test-Bench Commissioning

Tools & Infrastructure

Git
Linux (Ubuntu)
Docker
Proxmox
InfluxDB
Grafana
ROS / ROS 2

Languages

Outside work

Guitar, singing, martial arts, travelling.

Acoustic song covers on YouTube ↗

06 Documents

Curriculum Vitae2 pages · English TUM Grade ReportM.Sc. Aerospace · August 2026 METU TranscriptB.Sc. Mechanical Engineering Reference LetterPhlair GmbH · April 2026

07 Contact

I'm looking for full-time roles in control systems, GNC and model-based design. The quickest way to reach me is by email.

omersayilgan56@gmail.com

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