Solutions Architect
Building cloud infrastructure that scales.
AWS · Terraform · Kubernetes · Python
About
I'm a Solutions Architect based in Istanbul, Turkey. I specialise in AWS cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and container orchestration with Kubernetes. Currently on the Platform team at Coca-Cola İçecek.
I hold a Master's in Software Engineering from Bogazici University and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Sabanci University. Outside of infrastructure I mentor engineers and give conference talks, including at SRE Days London and Google DevFest.
AWS Well-Architected, scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure.
Kubernetes, EKS, developer tooling: GitHub, Azure DevOps, ELK, New Relic.
Terraform, Terragrunt, and CI/CD pipelines for reproducible environments.
Python microservices and REST APIs: Django, Flask, PostgreSQL.
Experience
One of the largest Coca-Cola bottlers in the world, operating across Turkey and 9 other countries. The Platform team owns the shared developer tooling and infrastructure used across the entire engineering organisation.
AWS Premier Partner consultancy delivering cloud architecture and platform engineering for enterprise clients. Clients included Doping Hafıza, Etiya, viravira.co, and Allzin.
Hipo built Pera Wallet in partnership with the Algorand Foundation — Algorand's leading non-custodial mobile wallet for managing crypto assets on the Algorand blockchain. Pera is now fully owned by Algorand. Hipo and Algorand were headquartered in Canada and Portugal; I worked remotely from Istanbul.
Istanbul-based consultancy specialising in ServiceNow and OutSystems — providing IT service management and low-code application development for enterprise clients.
Education
Boğaziçi University · Istanbul, Turkey
TU Darmstadt · Darmstadt, Germany
Sabancı University · Istanbul, Turkey
Skills
Certifications
Speaking
Open Source
Writing
Contact
Open to conversations about cloud architecture, platform engineering, and interesting problems. Drop me a line.