ITU Alumni / System Architect

Burak KAÇAR

Electrical Engineer

Istanbul Technical University graduate bridging analytical engineering with modern computing, secure cloud infrastructures, and simulation-driven design.

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root@secure-node:~

$ systemctl status nginx
[ OK ] nginx.service — active
[ OK ] hestia.service — active
 
$ uptime
load: 0.02 | mem: 814M/2G
 
node: oracle-arm | ssl: valid

About Me & Expertise

PROFILE DATA

I graduated from Istanbul Technical University in February 2026 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. I have a 2.54 GPA and an ALES score of 85.25, which adds to my academic training in power systems and control engineering. I am committed to using analytical problem-solving to solve real-world engineering problems. I am especially interested in designing energy-efficient systems, modeling systems using simulations, and optimizing technical infrastructure.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Engineering Simulation

Advanced modeling of lighting environments and power systems using DIALux, MATLAB, and Simulink.

System Administration

Deploying and managing Linux-based server environments (Ubuntu/HestiaCP) with a focus on web services and mail server autonomy.

Secure Computing

Implementing security-by-isolation architectures using Qubes OS and the Xen hypervisor.

Infrastructure Design

Engineering planning for high-power systems and energy consumption optimization for industrial flight simulators.

Hardware Engineering

Custom PC architecture design, including thermal management and cooling system optimization.

High-Level Technical Projects

LIVE DEPLOYMENTS & ARCHITECTURE

EARLY-STAGE STARTUP / FOUNDER

VoltEdge AI: Edge-Assisted Energy Optimization

An edge-assisted energy optimization and automation platform designed for smart homes and micro-facilities. We bridge local IoT telemetry (via Zigbee/Matter protocols and smart meters) with Anthropic's Claude AI reasoning models to automatically schedule high-power operations during peak efficiency hours, ensuring privacy-first, local data processing.

01 // ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Human-Centric Lighting for the Historic Taşkışla Building (EMT-1 & EMT-2)

As my final year project at ITU, I designed a state-of-the-art Human-Centric Lighting (HCL) system for the iconic Taşkışla building. The project integrated energy efficiency with biological synchronization, supported by extensive technical data tables and simulation models to preserve the building's historical integrity.

02 // INFRASTRUCTURE

Autonomous Cloud Infrastructure & Secure Mail Deployment

I architected and deployed a self-sovereign server environment, initially on DigitalOcean and later migrated to Oracle Cloud Free Tier with HestiaCP. This involved configuring a private SMTP/IMAP server, complex DNS security protocols (MX, SPF, DKIM), and implementing Nginx for high-performance web delivery.

03 // ISO-SECURITY

Security-Focused Workstation Design

I designed a secure computing environment based on the Security-by-Isolation principle. By utilizing the Qubes OS (Xen-based hypervisor), I partitioned digital activities into isolated "AppVMs" to mitigate hardware and software-level vulnerabilities, ensuring a robust platform for sensitive engineering data.

Blog & Insights

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