Ahmet UÇAN

DevOps Tech Lead at Hepsiburada | AWS Certified Devops Professional | AWS Certified Solution Architect

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experience

  • Hepsiburada (NASDAQ: HEPS) ()
    • DevOps Tech Lead
      Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Sr. DevOps Engineer
      Jan 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Installation and lifecycle management of 350+ Kubernetes clusters using Hepsiburada Kubernetes Engine (HKE). Oversaw multi-cloud operations across Google Cloud Platform, Huawei Cloud and Microsoft Azure, driving platform consistency and scalability. Delivered multiple cloud cost optimization and automation projects, achieving over $250K in annual savings through strategic tooling and architecture improvements. Successfully led the full migration of Hepsiburada’s infrastructure from Vanilla Kubernetes to HKE powered by Cluster API, implementing end-to-end automation in a team environment. Automated the migration of Elasticsearch clusters to OpenSearch, transitioning from SaltStack to cloud-init-driven DevOps Catalog tools with a developer-friendly interface. Integrated and managed stateful services within the DevOps Catalog with best practices (zero downtime, big data, and messaging migration strategies). Services include: Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Varnish, Consul, and OpenSearch. Played a key role in incident response and planned maintenance for mission-critical microservices such as Basket, Order, Campaign, Catalog, Customer, and Order Management Systems. Supporting the implementation of SOX compliance across DevOps processes by ensuring auditability and security. Managing and optimizing CI/CD workflows with GitLab, ArgoCD for GitOps-style deployments, and Airflow for pipeline automation. Developed numerous Ansible-based automation scripts, streamlining repetitive tasks and configuration management. Responsible for monitoring architecture, including Thanos, Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana for Kubernetes and stateful services. Strong hands-on experience in Python and Bash scripting; currently building proficiency in Go. Lead internal technical initiatives: mentoring team members, defining scalable architectures, and promoting DevOps best practices. Openstack VmWare Platforms usage.

  • bestcloudfor.me (2 yrs 8 mos)
    • Cloud Native Engineer Professional
      Feb 2023 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr

    • Cloud Native Engineer
      Jun 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

      ELK installation with Ansible Automation preparation of playbooks in a parametrized way Backend and Frontend Projects Containerization work (React Node.js Angular .NET Pyton Java etc.) Elasticsearch Auto snapshot structure preparation Helm Tools using a lot of different projects AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline Service using in a lot of projects AWS ELB Services AWS ECS Service ELK Management and configuration in specific projects AWS EKS and VPC Services installation with Terraform Automation, and Management AWS S3 Service OpenVPN Installation and management AWS RDS Service Installation and Management Jenkins Tool Management and installation New Relic Integration AWS CloudWatch Service, Create alarm for Service and Notification system with ChatBot and SNS Grafana & Prometheus Monitoring Tools Installation and Management Node Exporter Installation with Ansible Automation for On Demand Servers LDAP integration for Elasticsearch Preparing Logstash Configuration for Specific Logs Platform migration as Lift and Ship AWS Lambda Service Git

  • Coastal and Harbour Engineer at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü
    Oct 2020 - Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Master Project Determining of Offshore floating Wind Turbine Dynamics Using Machine Learning - with Prof. Dr. Yalçın YÜKSEL BTK Academy- Machine Learning with Python Certificate date: 14/02/2021

  • Cloud Native Engineer Student at bestcloudfor.me-academy
    Apr 2021 - May 2021 · 2 mos

  • Junior Software Engineer at Freelance
    Mar 2020 - May 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Software Languages Machine Learning BTK Academy- Machine Learning with Python Certificate date: 14/02/2021 Master Project Determining of Offshore floating Wind Turbine Dynamics Using Machine Learning - with Prof. Dr. Yalçın YÜKSEL (continues) Python -Object and Data Structures of Python -Operators -Numpy -Loops -Pandas -Functions -Object-based programming -Modules -Error and Error management -Iterators -Generators -Web Scrabbing -Selenium -Beautiful Soup MATLAB PROJECTS Sea State Data Anlaysis and Visualization in MATLAB Sea State Forecasting Model in Python-Machine Learning Basic Html Application Instagram and Twitter Bot App in Selenium Student Grade App (Basic Level) Live Currency App. With Request Module Cashpoint Application in Python Github Login and Reach Repostories