Ahmet G.

DevOps Engineer

Ahmed is a seasoned DevOps Engineer with eight years of commercial experience, including two years in Java development and six years dedicated to DevOps.

He has strong expertise in cloud platforms, container orchestration, CI/CD management, as well as monitoring, logging, and incident management.

A standout achievement in his career was his role with Anadolu Efes, where he served as the sole DevOps engineer on a greenfield project. Ahmed managed the project from inception to production, handling tasks such as provisioning Azure resources, creating CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, managing Helm Charts, and establishing release processes. Known for his result-driven approach, Ahmed consistently delivers reliable and maintainable solutions that meet project demands.

Main expertise

  • Keycloak
    Keycloak 3 years
  • Microservices 3 years
  • Jenkins
    Jenkins 3 years

Other skills

  • SonarQube
    SonarQube 4 years
  • Python
    Python 2 years
  • Strapi
    Strapi 1 years
Ahmet

Ahmet G.

Turkey

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Selected experience

Employment

  • Devops Engineer

    Ultra - 2 years 1 month

    • Managed infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring high availability and performance.
    • Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI to streamline development and deployment processes.
    • Managed Kubernetes Engine workloads with Helm charts and ArgoCD for efficient deployment and scaling.
    • Maintained infrastructure as code with Terraform, enabling scalable and maintainable environments.
    • Handled third-party integrations such as Cloudflare, VPN, Akamai Cache, Aiven, and MongoDB Atlas to ensure seamless operations.
    • Participated actively in on-call rotations, managing monitoring, incident response, and issue resolution.
    • Focused on cost monitoring and implemented strategies to reduce infrastructure-related expenses.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • MongoDB MongoDB
    • Microservices
    • Kubernetes Kubernetes
    • Google Cloud Google Cloud
    • Terraform Terraform
    • VPN
    • Keycloak Keycloak
    • Argo CD Argo CD

  • Devops Engineer

    DFX5 - 1 year 1 month

    • Created CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild and CodeDeploy to automate deployment processes for clients.
    • Managed workloads on ECS and EKS clusters, ensuring scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure.
    • Managed infrastructure as code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation templates to maintain consistent and repeatable environments.
    • Handled storage, networking, and monitoring solutions for customers, ensuring optimal performance and security in their AWS environments.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • AWS AWS
    • Kubernetes Kubernetes
    • Terraform Terraform
    • AWS ECS AWS ECS

  • Devops Engineer

    Anadolu Efes - 7 months

    • Worked on an integration project involving over 60 Spring Boot and Quarkus microservices with Apache Camel, serving as a key integration point for the company.
    • Provisioned and managed resources on Azure, including OpenShift, virtual machines, and various managed services.
    • Created CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to automate and streamline deployment processes.
    • Developed Helm charts and managed deployments to enable smooth and scalable rollouts.
    • Designed comprehensive release and deployment processes to improve operational efficiency.
    • Installed and configured Keycloak, the ELK Stack, Redis, Nexus, and Nginx for secure and optimized application management.
    • Built a monitoring infrastructure using Prometheus and Grafana to track system health and performance.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • Redis Redis
    • NGINX NGINX
    • Microservices
    • Jenkins Jenkins
    • Spring Boot Spring Boot
    • Kubernetes Kubernetes
    • Azure Azure
    • Grafana Grafana
    • Helm Helm
    • OpenShift OpenShift
    • Keycloak Keycloak
    • Quarkus Quarkus
    • Apache Camel Apache Camel
    • Prometheus Prometheus

  • Devops Engineer

    PIA - 2 years

    • Created and monitored CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, tailoring them to meet specific business requirements;
    • Configured and monitored application deployments on OpenShift, including the setup of liveness and readiness probes, environment variables, connection secrets, and config maps based on application needs;
    • Developed custom Bash, Python, and Groovy scripts to automate various operational tasks;
    • Integrated test automation tools such as SonarQube and Selenium into the CI pipeline to ensure code quality and functionality;
    • Identified and resolved root causes of failures and errors, providing technical support to maintain system stability;
    • Managed Bitbucket repositories, including configuring and controlling team and project permissions;
    • Automated database operations—including daily backups and migrations for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB—by creating cron jobs, and handled restore operations upon request;
    • Wrote Ansible playbooks to automate and version-control environment configurations across development, test, pre-production, production, and migration stages;
    • Researched DevOps best practices and applied findings to optimize project processes and tooling.

    Technologies:

    • Technologies:
    • MySQL MySQL
    • MongoDB MongoDB
    • PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
    • Microservices
    • Jenkins Jenkins
    • Python Python
    • Bash Bash
    • Selenium Selenium
    • Apache Groovy Apache Groovy
    • SonarQube SonarQube
    • OpenShift OpenShift

Education

  • BSc.Computer Science

    Istanbul Technical University · 2012 - 2016

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