I am the guy that might have one too many servers at home according to my wife and running complex setups that mostly serve me. But the plus side to that is I have big enough of a playground to experiment with new technologies as well as sharpening my skill-set to have a solution for novelty cases when I encounter them in real-life.
One of the joys of my life is to discuss this “nerdy” stuff with like-minded people and exchange ideas even though according to my experience they are rarer than unicorns.
work
Work Experience
Present
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March 2024
Full-Time
Rewe Group
Vienna, Austria
Integration Platform Services Expert
Role: Automating everything through Kubernetes operators for developers to have a self-service platform, while building the next generation of the infrastructure in the scope of the company’s digitalization process.
- Responsible for company-wide Kubernetes based integration utilities consisting of Kafka and its auxiliaries, Istio on an event-driven programming environment.
- Design and implementation of a self-service platform in Kubernetes with operators through kubebuilder and Go for the current and the next generation of the architecture.
- Design and implementation of short-term problem-solving tools and backends with Go.
- Taking active part in decision making of company’s digitalization and merger with their international counterparts in the scope of the integration tools, evaluation and initial implementation for these tools.
- Active collaboration and directly working with sister platform teams to come up with a better cumulative solution as in the form of a self-service platform.
Present
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August 2021
Freelance
Sorwe
İstanbul, Turkey
DevOps Architect
Role: Evolving the customer’s non-automated, local build-based deployment workflow to CI/CD-based deployed to initially highly available on-premises servers and after that to the cloud providers.
- Architectural design for highly available servers.
- CI configurations for Bitbucket Pipelines with custom Golang CLIs to automate the flow for similar applications.
- Ansible deployments for provisioning on-premises servers and deploying microservice-based services.
- Custom Ansible roles and collections for automated Docker Compose and Nginx-based deployments.
- Monitoring deployments and infrastructure through Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Mimir and Loki.
- Planned Terraform-based deployments to a TBD cloud provider.
- Support for Node.JS-based frontend applications and libraries.
March 2024
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February 2020
Full-Time
Web&Söhne
Vienna, Austria
Backend/DevOps Developer
Role: Additional to backend development and developer operations for customers that hire us for full stack applications, fulfilling the role to experiment with new technologies, evaluate their feasibility and develop specific tools for the company’s fast-paced in and out project workflow.
- Developer Operations, CI/CD Configurations, Ansible, Terraform.
- Backend development with Nest.JS, based on microservices and RestFUL/GraphQL APIs as gateways.
- CI/CD Golang CLI applications to automate tasks with parameters instead of a declarative approach on Gitlab CI.
- Creating developer tools that generate and extend complicated Node.JS projects through CLI based on Angular Schematics and @nrwl/nx.
- Developing and evolving the base architecture for product delivery.
- Experimenting with new technologies, creating re-useable libraries, evaluating feasibility and performing the initial implementation and demonstration for peers.
- Technical consultancy and guidance for customers to shape new or ongoing projects.
- Providing consulting services for customers to migrate their architecture to cloud providers.
September 2018
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May 2016
Full-Time
Tekfen Engineering
İstanbul, Turkey
Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineer
- Working mainly in the Oil and Gas Industry.
- Instrument and Control Systems technical documentation for procurement.
- Factory tests supervision and commissioning documentation.
teaching
Teaching Experience
March 2023
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March 2023
Full-Time
Coding School & Academy Wörthersee
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
Lecturer
- JavaScript Basics (2 weeks)
December 2022
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November 2022
Full-Time
Coding School & Academy Wörthersee
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
Lecturer
- JavaScript Basics (3 weeks)
- Networking Basics (1 week)
- Databases and Persistent Design Patterns (1 day)
September 2022
Freelance
UpLeveled GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Guest Lecturer
- JavaScript - Functional Programming and Programming Paradigms (1 day)
June 2022
Freelance
UpLeveled GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Guest Lecturer
- Docker Basics (1 day)
April 2022
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March 2022
Full-Time
Coding School & Academy Wörthersee
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
Lecturer
- JavaScript Basics (3 weeks)
- Networking Basics (1 week)
October 2021
Full-Time
Coding School & Academy Wörthersee
Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
Lecturer
- JavaScript Basics (3 weeks)
education
Education
2020
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2018
Master's Degree
FH Technikum Wien
Vienna, Austria
Telecommunication and Internet Technologies
2015
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2010
Bachelor's Degree
Koç University
İstanbul, Turkey
Electrical and Electronics Engineering (English)
2010
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2005
High School
Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi
İstanbul, Turkey
Mathematics & Science (English)