DevOps Engineer specializing in infrastructure migrations and automation with 5+ years of expertise in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Proven track record in containerization, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native technologies with demonstrated success in large-scale system migrations and automation projects.
Delivery Summary
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F5 Migration Lead: Led Alteon to F5 Networks migration with end-to-end automation via Ansible/AWX, AS3, and declarative onboarding, establishing network infrastructure as code.
VM Decommissioning: Built AWX multi-inventory workflow integrating vCenter, CMDB, CrowdStrike, and IPAM to automate decommissioning across the VM estate.
Network Infra CI/CD: Built Jenkins multibranch pipeline on Kubernetes agents for Terraform-driven NX-OS infrastructure with PR-based plan/apply flows and reusable modules.
F5-Kubernetes Integration: Deployed F5 Container Ingress Services to bridge BIG-IP load balancing across Kubernetes clusters.
RabbitMQ Migration: Migrated messaging infrastructure from Debian to RHEL with ELK Stack optimization, minimizing cutover downtime.
Monitoring & Logging: Integrated Zabbix/Grafana and Prometheus Telemetry Streaming for F5 pool monitoring; centralized Squid logs via Filebeat and Logstash.
Ansible Playground: Developed automated lab environment with Docker, Terraform, Bash, and Ansible for infrastructure testing.
DevOps Engineer, Amadeus Loyalty IT
Istanbul, Turkey · Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
LMS Automation: Led Loyalty Management System UI automation with UI Vision RPA, Docker, Jenkins, and Python, reducing manual test execution.
Azure Migration: Migrated multiple LMS applications to Azure with VM optimization and Apache Tomcat hardening.
Test Engineer, Accenture
Istanbul, Turkey · Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
Delivered Angular test automation for a Connected Construction digitalization project using Azure DevOps and Protractor/TypeScript, reducing manual regression effort.
Software Engineer, ULAK Communications Inc.
Istanbul, Turkey · Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Supported multiple delivery teams through Protractor test automation, Angular frontend development, and DevOps operations.
Freelance and Self Projects
Self-Hosted Homelab Infrastructure Platform
2026
Designed production-style Proxmox infrastructure with Terraform modules for VM provisioning, cloud-init, and reusable environment definitions.
Automated Linux bootstrap and Kubernetes (k3s) installation with Ansible including SSH hardening, container registry, NetBird VPN, and AdGuard DNS.
Deployed Kubernetes platform services (PostgreSQL, Traefik, n8n, GitHub Actions Runner Controller) with Terraform; migrated state to a PostgreSQL backend with per-layer schemas.
Built self-hosted CI/CD on k3s using GitHub Actions Runner Controller with ephemeral runners and a custom registry image.
Implemented private network access via NetBird VPN, AdGuard DNS, and Traefik routing without public exposure.
My homelab is where I stay hands-on with systems outside production work. I run Proxmox as the core platform and maintain multiple environments there, including Kubernetes clusters, ERP systems, self-hosted services, Jenkins pipelines, Terraform-driven operations, and workstation-based development setups for automation, monitoring, and day-to-day platform experimentation.
Languages and Additional Information
English - Fluent (IELTS 8.5)
Turkish - Native
German and Japanese - Beginner
Community Service: Principal at Pozitif Projeler (2016 - Present), a nonprofit supporting individuals with Down Syndrome; Human Pixel Art Project (2018), coordinated a 60,000-participant Ataturk portrait project.
Interests: Jeet Kune Do (Black Belt), Table Tennis, 3D Printing, Music (Guitar, Drums), n8n AI workflows and automation
Certifications
Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate: 2020
DevOps and Infrastructure: Configuration Management and the Cloud (Google), Technical Support Fundamentals (Google), Troubleshooting and Debugging Techniques (Google)
Programming and Development: Crash Course on Python (Google), Using Python to Interact with the Operating System (Google), Automating Real-World Tasks with Python (Google), Introduction to Git and GitHub (Google), Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS (Duke University), C for Everyone: Structured Programming (UC Santa Cruz)
AI and Machine Learning: AI For Everyone (DeepLearning.AI), Structuring Machine Learning Projects (DeepLearning.AI)