İzmir, Türkiye
As a seasoned DevOps Engineer and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), I specialize in transforming complex infrastructure into highly automated, secure, and scalable multi-cloud systems. Leveraging a Master’s degree and certifications like AWS Solution Architect Associate and Google PM, I align technical strategy directly with business outcomes, focusing on boosting operational efficiency and system reliability. My core philosophy centers on fostering true DevOps Culture, driving continuous improvement, and applying DevSecOps principles from the start. I combine deep expertise in multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) with a focus on advanced cloud-native practices, including Service Mesh (Istio, Envoy) and Serverless architecture. I eliminate manual toil, enhance collaboration across teams, and significantly reduce deployment failure rates. Core Technical Mastery & Impact • Cloud & Orchestration: Hybrid Kubernetes management (AKS, On-Prem), Docker containerization, Helm packaging, and infrastructure automation using Terraform. • Networking & Traffic: Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, DNS, traffic routing, and secure perimeter controls, including firewalls, load balancers, proxies, and Ingress Controllers. Expertise in cloud-native deployment best practices and managing access using RBAC (Role-Based Access Control). • GitOps & CI/CD: Architecting declarative deployments with ArgoCD, creating robust pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. Experienced in applying robust Git Branching strategies. • DevSecOps & Quality: Integrating security scanning (SAST, DAST) and compliance automation. Utilizing tools like HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, Trivy, Aqua Security, SonarQube, and Checkmarx within the pipeline. Familiarity with JIRA for agile tracking. • Messaging & Data Layer: Hands-on experience with high-throughput messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ. Proficient in using Redis for caching and managing object storage systems such as S3 and MinIO. • Observability & Monitoring: Scaling high-traffic systems via Kong API Gateway. Establishing proactive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using the ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash), AppDynamics, Prometheus and Grafana. • Data Infrastructure: Implementing High Availability (HA) and rigorous backup/restore strategies for critical databases including MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle.
• Architecting and sustaining the cloud-native infrastructure for a massive retail ecosystem, ensuring scalability for users and optimizing high-velocity data streams. • Orchestrated the seamless management of hybrid Kubernetes clusters (AKS & On-Prem). Implemented strict GitOps principles via ArgoCD to guarantee hundreds of microservices were consistently synchronized across all environments. • Revolutionized system monitoring and diagnostics by building AI-powered n8n workflows. Automated the creation of management dashboards and enabled AI-assisted root cause analysis, leading to significantly faster identification and resolution of microservice anomalies. • Configured and continuously optimized Kong API Gateway to safely handle millions of daily requests. Established robust rate limiting, authentication, and traffic shaping policies, which greatly strengthened the secure ingress perimeter and maintained high stability under sudden peak loads. • Designed and standardized end-to-end Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines. Enforced DevSecOps principles by integrating Aqua Security, Trivy, and SonarQube to automatically scan for and block vulnerabilities, ensuring that security controls were embedded from the earliest stage of development (Security-as-Code). • Built a comprehensive observability stack using AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic APM. This initiative provided deep, critical visibility into distributed traces and proactively identified system bottlenecks, leading to enhanced system performance. • Centralized all sensitive data management using HashiCorp Vault. This key security initiative successfully eliminated the reliance on hardcoded credentials throughout the platform and guaranteed adherence to strict compliance requirements.
• Designed and orchestrated cutting-edge Kubernetes-based architectures, successfully enabling the critical transition from brittle monolithic structures to resilient, scalable microservices. This initiative drastically improved system agility and future scalability. • Established the foundational structure for GitOps workflows, utilizing ArgoCD to automate deployments. This ensured that configurations were consistently synchronized across all environments, leading to highly predictable deployment reliability. • Engineered and maintained advanced GitHub Actions pipelines, integrating automated testing and parallel execution strategies. This comprehensive approach significantly accelerated release cycles and streamlined the path from code commit to production. • Standardized infrastructure provisioning across all environments using Terraform (IaC) and Ansible for configuration management. This crucial automation effort eliminated manual operational toil and guaranteed reproducible, consistent environments. • Developed modular and easily reusable Helm Charts to simplify the deployment of complex applications. This achievement fostered necessary standardization and greatly reduced the learning curve for development teams, promoting greater efficiency across the organization.
Execution of system development projects in ERP Systems and Sales Channels together with external resources. Perform necessary transactions related to sales operations in Field Activation and Multi-Channel Automation Platform (FIELDSCOPE) and set up user permissions and roles. Preparing the necessary queries in the database to perform data processing operations and generate sales reports. Creation of various management reports using business intelligence tools. Taking an active role in the Stationery Fair, the company's largest sales event, to ensure coordination of the event and the preparation of reports on the fair. Preparing sales forecasts using methods such as time series analysis for all sales channels.
Designing dynamic executive dashboards about Anadolu Group's Information Technology Budget and Outsourcing Services for using on the Board of Management. Draft a form to measure compliance by group companies with the Communiqué on Information Systems Management issued by the CMB, apply this form to group companies, and analyze the results. The creation of executive dashboards that include key human resources metrics such as Turnover Rates and Cost-Benefit Analysis across all Anatolian Group Companies.
During the internship period, I carried out the Industrial 4.0 Smart Factories Project with my team, which aims to increase productivity and quality on production. Along this time I gained experience in areas such as teamwork, project management, R & D, production and organization. I developed myself technically by participating in studies performed in the IT Department.