Ahmet Zahid Arıcan
Hardware Design Engineer
arican.zahid@gmail.comProfessional summary
Hardware design engineer developing electronic circuits from initial design to mass production. Experience includes wearable medical devices, radiation-measurement equipment, high-voltage systems up to 10 kV and multilayer circuit boards.
Core expertise
- Electronic circuit design
- Analog and mixed-signal circuits, sensor interfaces and low-noise measurement.
- PCB development
- Schematic design, multilayer circuit boards, assembly and testing.
- Power & connectivity
- Battery-powered devices, high-voltage circuits and wireless data transmission.
- Testing & production
- Functional testing, troubleshooting, certification support and transfer to mass production.
Professional experience
Livewell Giyilebilir Medikal Cihazlar
Nov 2024 – Present
Hardware Design Engineer
- Design electronic circuits and sensor interfaces for wearable medical devices, including low-noise ECG measurement.
- Develop Bluetooth sensor-data transmission and optimize power consumption for battery-powered devices.
- Evaluate biometric measurement components and investigate battery-monitoring inconsistencies.
Epsilon Elektronik
Mar 2022 – Oct 2024
Hardware Design Engineer
- Designed radiation-measurement electronics and circuit boards for survey meters and area monitors.
- Developed the control electronics for a patient-positioning laser system.
- Supported PCB assembly, functional testing, certification and mass production of medical and radiation-monitoring equipment.
FÖGE GMBH
Sep 2019 – Feb 2022
Hardware Design Engineer
- Designed high-voltage power circuits for electrostatic ionization, with outputs up to 10 kV.
- Developed industrial temperature-sensing interfaces and tested their accuracy and stability.
- Took 7 product lines from prototype to volume production, including PCB fabrication, assembly and incoming testing.
Simtekno Endüstriyel Ürünler San. Tic. Ltd. Şti.
Jun 2019 – Sep 2019
Intern
- Designed LED lighting and power-regulator circuits for machine-vision camera illumination, including aluminum circuit boards.
Kayseri Ulaşım A.Ş.
Feb 2019 – May 2019
Intern
- Contributed to a magnetic traffic-sensor circuit board and wireless sensor-data collection over LoRa for traffic analytics.
Education
Kütahya Dumlupınar University
B.Sc. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Sep 2014 – Jun 2019
Mimar Sinan Industrial Vocational High School
High School
Jan 2013
Technical tools & platforms
- Design & simulation
- Altium Designer · LTspice — circuit stability, noise and bias-point analysis
- Platforms
- STM32 · ESP32 · Raspberry Pi
- Interfaces & protocols
- BLE · MQTT · LoRa · RS-485 · SPI · Ethernet · 4–20 mA
- Other tools
- Microsoft Office
Languages
Turkish — Native · English — Good