Cenk Kılıç, M.Sc.

Electrical&Electronics Engineer by trait, developer by heart.

Vienna, Austria

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.

Education

  • 2020

    2018

    Master's Degree

    FH Technikum Wien

    FH Technikum Wien

    Vienna, Austria

    Telecommunication and Internet Technologies

  • 2015

    2010

    Bachelor's Degree

    Koç University

    Koç University

    İstanbul, Turkey

    Electrical and Electronics Engineering (English)

  • 2010

    2005

    High School

    Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi

    Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi

    İstanbul, Turkey

    Mathematics & Science (English)

Work Experience

  • Present

    February 2020

    Full-Time

    Web&Söhne

    Web&Söhne

    Vienna, Austria

    Backend 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 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 for it and evaluating feasibility and performing the initial implementation and demonstration for peers.
    • Technical consultancy and guidance for customers to shape the new or ongoing projects.
    • Providing consulting services for the customers to migrate their architecture to cloud providers.
  • Present

    August 2021

    Freelance

    Sorwe

    Sorwe

    İstanbul, Turkey

    DevOps Architect

    Role: Evolving the customer’s non-automated, local build-based deployment workflow to CI/CD based deployed to initially high-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 CLI’s 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.
  • September 2018

    May 2016

    Full-Time

    Tekfen Engineering

    Tekfen Engineering

    İstanbul, Turkey

    Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineer

    • Working mainly on Oil and Gas Industry.
    • Instrument and Control Systems technical documentation for procurement.
    • Factory tests supervision and commissioning documentation.

Teaching Experience

  • March 2023

    March 2023

    Full-Time

    Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

    Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

    Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria

    Lecturer

    • JavaScript Basics (2 weeks)
  • December 2022

    November 2022

    Full-Time

    Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

    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

    UpLeveled GmbH

    Vienna, Austria

    Guest Lecturer

    • JavaScript - Functional Programming and Programming Paradigms (1 day)
  • June 2022

    Freelance

    UpLeveled GmbH

    UpLeveled GmbH

    Vienna, Austria

    Guest Lecturer

    • Docker Basics (1 day)
  • April 2022

    March 2022

    Full-Time

    Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

    Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

    Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria

    Lecturer

    • JavaScript Basics (3 weeks)
    • Networking Basics (1 week)
  • October 2021

    Full-Time

    Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

    Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

    Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria

    Lecturer

    • JavaScript Basics (3 weeks)

Skills

Programming / Scripting Languages

  • TypeScript, JavaScript
  • Go
  • Python*
  • Rust*
  • Lua
  • Linux Bash

Internet Frontend Programming Languages

  • HTML, CSS, SASS
  • JavaScript

Internet Frontend Frameworks

  • React, Next.js
  • Vue, Nuxt.js
  • Svelte, SvelteKit

Internet Backend Frameworks

  • Node > Nest.JS, Express, Fastify
  • Python > Flask, Django
  • Go > Gin

Databases

  • SQL-Based > MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, OracleDB*
  • Object-Based > MongoDB, Cassandra*
  • ElasticSearch, OpenSearch

General Tools and Libraries

  • Template Libraries > Jinja, Go Templates, Handlebars
  • @nrwl/nx, Angular schematics and builders

CI/CD

  • Gitlab CI
  • Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Github Actions
  • Drone
  • Jenkins*
  • ArgoCD

Infrastructure as Code

  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi*
  • Puppet*

Monitoring

  • Prometheus, Grafana, Grafana Mimir, Loki
  • ElasticSearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash

Containerization / Orchestration

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • LXC*

Virtualization

  • Proxmox
  • KVM
  • VMware ESXi*

Cloud Platforms

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Web Servers / Load Balancers

  • Nginx, OpenResty
  • HAProxy

Versioning

  • Git

General Knowledge

  • Linux
  • Networking and Internet Protocols
  • Firewall (OPNSense, PFSense)
  • Telecom and Communication Technologies
  • Computer Hardware
  • On-Premise Server Management
  • VPN Configurations - S2S, R2S (SoftEther, Wireguard, OpenVPN)
  • Backup and Recovery
Note: the items that I am only familiar rather than comfortable with, due to either knowledge getting a bit rusty or lower level of interaction is marked with a *