Vienna, Austria

Cenk Kılıç, MSc.

Software Platform Engineer

Electrical & Electronics Engineer by trade, developer by heart.

I build and run the platforms other engineers ship on, and my job is to make that infrastructure boring enough that they never have to care. I run servers for a living, and apparently also for fun.

At home, I am the guy with one too many servers, at least according to my wife. That homelab is my playground, where new technology gets tried long before I need it, so unusual problems rarely catch me off guard.

One of the joys of my life is trading ideas about this nerdy stuff with like-minded people. In my experience they are rarer than unicorns, which makes every one of those conversations count.

work

Work Experience

1 year 3 months

08.2025 – Now
Full-Time
Laravel

Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

New York, USA Remote laravel.com laravel.cloud
Role: Building and running the platform behind Laravel Cloud, where applications get deployed, scaled and kept healthy without their developers having to think about the infrastructure underneath.
Architecting and operating a global, multi-region Kubernetes platform on AWS, defined end to end as code and rolled out through GitOps.

Designing and building Kubernetes operators in Go that own the full lifecycle of customer applications and managed services, from first deploy to self-healing at scale.

Staying one step ahead of the platform’s requirements: planning the next generation of core components and driving fleet-wide migrations to them with zero disruption.

Shaping the internal developer methodology and tooling, so the way we build and ship scales together with the platform and the team.

Engineering the automation that keeps a fast-moving platform current, safe and reproducible across every environment.

Pushing the platform’s scaling, observability and cost efficiency so customer workloads stay fast and affordable as they grow.

Building dedicated enterprise environments with the isolation and compliance guarantees large customers need.
5 years 3 months

08.2021 – Now
Freelance
Sorwe

DevOps Architect

İstanbul, Turkey Remote sorwe.com
Role: Turning a product that was deployed by hand from local builds into repeatable deployments on highly available on-premises infrastructure, and evolving it as the product grows.
Designing and running the highly available on-premises infrastructure, provisioned and deployed entirely through Ansible with custom roles and collections.

Working full time on site reliability engineering, keeping the platform available, observable and performant.

Building a shared library of Bitbucket Pipes in Go, so every service, in whatever language, builds, versions and ships through the same flow.

Rolling out the microservice estate as containers behind reverse proxies and load balancing, from the API gateway and background jobs to the language processing and artificial intelligence services.

Running self-hosted language models on dedicated GPU servers for the product’s AI features.

Building the observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir and Loki, together with alerting and automated backups.

Supporting the frontend applications and shared libraries.
1 year 7 months

03.2024 – 09.2025
Full-Time
Rewe International

Integration Platform Services Expert

Vienna, Austria Remote rewe-group.at
Role: Building a self-service integration platform on Kubernetes, so development teams get what they need without tickets or waiting on anyone, as part of the company’s digitalization and its merger with its international counterparts. Today it is the shared foundation for REWE, used by development teams across multiple European countries.
Providing Kafka as a platform service: operating, maintaining and backing it up, and writing the self-service operator around it.

Providing the Istio service mesh as a platform service, with its own self-service operator so teams can onboard themselves.

Providing API cataloging with Gravitee as a platform service, where teams register and manage their APIs through self-service operators.

Cataloging the schemas behind those APIs and events, and giving their consumers, both automated systems and human teams, ways to discover, view and test them.

Designing and building multi-cluster Kubernetes operators in Go that isolate tenants into their own clusters to keep the blast radius small, while managing all of them from one central place.

Creating a shared operator library, so new operators can be built faster on common foundations for multi-cluster handling, configuration, validation and testing.

Building supporting APIs and tooling in Go, including an automated local Kubernetes environment that brings up the full end-to-end setup of the platform on a developer machine.

Shaping the next-generation architecture for the integration tools across the merged organization.

Working closely with sister platform teams to grow a shared self-service platform.
4 years 2 months

02.2020 – 03.2024
Full-Time
Web&Söhne — DIAMIR

Backend/DevOps Developer

Vienna, Austria Remote diamir.io
Role: Working across many customer projects at once in a fast-moving culture, building the backends and being the one-person band for everything it takes to ship and run them.
Building REST and GraphQL APIs with NestJS, mostly as microservice architectures.

Owning DevOps for every project: CI/CD, server provisioning and infrastructure as code, from the first commit to production.

Moving customer architectures to the cloud as part of migration projects.

Writing Go tools to automate the repetitive parts of delivery across projects.

Creating reusable libraries and developer tooling, so each new project starts from a solid base instead of from scratch.

Exploring new technologies, proving them out and bringing them into the team’s toolbox.

Guiding customers technically as they shape new and ongoing projects.
2 years 5 months

05.2016 – 09.2018
Full-Time
Tekfen Engineering

Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineer

İstanbul, Turkey On-Site tekfenmuhendislik.com
Role: Where it all started: instrumentation and control systems for oil and gas plants, back when my pipelines still carried actual oil.
Working mainly on oil and gas projects within a multidisciplinary engineering team.

Preparing the technical documentation for procuring instrumentation and control systems.

Supervising factory acceptance tests and documenting the systems for commissioning.

teaching

Teaching Experience

1 month

03.2023
Full-Time
Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

Lecturer

Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria csaw.at
Teaching JavaScript to a new full-time cohort, giving future developers the foundations to build their careers on.
JavaScript Basics (2 weeks)
2 months

11.2022 – 12.2022
Full-Time
Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

Lecturer

Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria csaw.at
Teaching JavaScript, networking and databases to a full-time cohort of future developers.
JavaScript Basics (3 weeks)

Networking Basics (1 week)

Databases and Persistent Design Patterns (1 day)
1 month

09.2022
Freelance
UpLeveled GmbH

Guest Lecturer

Vienna, Austria upleveled.io
Guest lecturing at a full-stack bootcamp for a one-day deep dive into functional programming and programming paradigms in JavaScript.
JavaScript - Functional Programming and Programming Paradigms (1 day)
1 month

06.2022
Freelance
UpLeveled GmbH

Guest Lecturer

Vienna, Austria upleveled.io
Guest lecturing at a full-stack bootcamp for a one-day deep dive into Docker and containers.
Docker Basics (1 day)
2 months

03.2022 – 04.2022
Full-Time
Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

Lecturer

Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria csaw.at
Teaching JavaScript and networking fundamentals to a full-time cohort of future developers.
JavaScript Basics (3 weeks)

Networking Basics (1 week)
1 month

10.2021
Full-Time
Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

Lecturer

Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria csaw.at
Teaching JavaScript from zero to a full-time cohort of future developers, building the foundations they start their careers on.
JavaScript Basics (3 weeks)

education

Education

2018 – 2020
Master's Degree

FH Technikum Wien

Telecommunication and Internet Technologies

Vienna, Austria technikum-wien.at

Earning a master’s in telecommunication and internet technologies alongside work, with a practical focus on networks, communication and what makes the internet tick.
2010 – 2015
Bachelor's Degree

Koç University

Electrical and Electronics Engineering (English)

İstanbul, Turkey ku.edu.tr

Studying electrical and electronics engineering while branching out into most of the computer science curriculum at Koç University, ranked the top university in Turkey by Times Higher Education.
2005 – 2010
High School

Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi

Mathematics & Science (English)

İstanbul, Turkey kadikoyanadolulisesi.meb.k12.tr

Finding a lifelong curiosity and the connections that still matter most to me at KAL, a.k.a. Maarif, one of Turkey’s most prestigious public high schools for seven decades.

Cenk Kılıç, MSc.

Work Experience

Laravel

Sorwe

Rewe International

Web&Söhne — DIAMIR

Tekfen Engineering

Teaching Experience

Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

UpLeveled GmbH

UpLeveled GmbH

Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

Coding School & Academy Wörthersee

Education

FH Technikum Wien

Koç University

Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi