Ali BARAN

CEO Yongatek Microelectronics

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Ali Baran is the CEO of Yongatek Microelectronics. After graduating from Ankara Hacettepe Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2000, he had the chance to gain experiences in Europe's leading semiconductor companies for about 15 years. He always had a dream of establish his own technology company and becoming a world brand since his university years. After working at ASELSAN for a short time, he started working at ALCATEL. Afterwards, he had the opportunity to gain 14 years of experience in microelectronics by working at ST, ST-ERICSSON and ERICSSON. He founded YONGATEK Microelectronics in 2014 with Turkish Engineers who have long experience in the sector. Yongatek Microelectronics' mission is become one of the few global brands developing technology in Semiconductor IC/ASIC/SoC/Chip Design , 5G/6G and Satellite Communications, Video Processing and IoT areas. Ali Baran and his wife Şeyma have been married for over 20 years and have two children.

Experience

  • CEO Yongatek Microelectronics at Yongatek Microelectronics
    May 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 3 mos

  • Team Leader/ Solution Architect at Ericsson
    Aug 2010 - Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    - Working in COBRA- NFC project as Team Leader in to follow all DFT activities. - Working in AS1553 ASELSAN project as Solution Architect. Certification of AS1553 IP in AIM Pba.PRO by using Python Language.

  • Team/Project Leader at ST-Ericsson
    Feb 2009 - Aug 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

    - Leading DFT team to follow all DFT tasks of WLAN and Bluetooth combo chips. - Leading Bluetooth project

  • Team Leader/Senior Digital Design Engineer at STMicroelectronics
    Jul 2002 - Feb 2009 · 6 yrs 8 mos

    - Leading DFT team to follow all DFT tasks of WLAN and Bluetooth combo chips. - ARM Sub-System design and Top Level Integration in Bluetooth projects - Implementation of JTAG test interface in NanoBlue Bluetooth project. This interface will be used in all next ASIC chips.

  • Digital Design Engineer at Alcatel Microelectronics
    Oct 2000 - Jul 2002 · 1 yr 10 mos

    - Working in HIPERLAN WLAN project.