Suleyman – Bare metal provisioning, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes

A technology platform that connects consumers with relevant service providers through data-driven matching and lead generation. The product supports scalable customer acquisition by helping businesses reach potential customers based on their needs and preferences.

• Owned full GitOps adoption with ArgoCD as the single source of truth for all Kubernetes deployments.
• Led CI/CD toolchain migration from Azure DevOps and Jenkins to GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Managed infrastructure as code with Terraform and Pulumi across Azure.
• Owned Azure security including Azure AD, RBAC, Conditional Access, identity governance, and app registrations.
• Designed Azure networking with VNet, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Azure Firewall, and DDoS protection.
• Led VPN migration from TransIP to Azure and integrated NetBird for zero-trust VPN access.
• Managed Azure Security Center, WAF policies, and cloud security posture across workloads.
• Containerized legacy IIS applications into Docker and AKS.
• Led on-premises to AKS migration to improve scalability.
• Centralized monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, FluentBit, and OpenTelemetry.
• Maintained platform-level security and compliance across cloud environments.

Security-critical identity platforms that enable a leading European digital identity provider to deliver secure, reliable identity verification and authentication services.

• Operated identity verification infrastructure across 9 environments spanning Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premise systems.
• Managed IAM and OIDC-based authentication and authorization architectures across multi-cloud providers.
• Ensured 99.9%+ availability under strict compliance requirements and provided 24/7 on-call support.
• Drove GitOps deployments across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments via ArgoCD.
• Managed Helm chart releases, namespace isolation, and RBAC policies across clusters.
• Orchestrated Istio Service Mesh for mTLS-encrypted traffic and zero-trust networking.
• Administered Cloudflare for DNS security, DDoS mitigation, and WAF protection.
• Maintained and extended the observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.
• Drove proactive monitoring and incident response across all environments.

Aerospace and aviation platforms supporting the design, production, delivery, and ongoing operation of commercial and defense aircraft. The products focus on improving operational efficiency, safety, and reliability across complex aviation processes.

• Collaborated with global Boeing teams to architect a centralized Internal Developer Portal using Backstage.io and Terraform modules.
• Implemented GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and Flux controllers for auditable deployments across AWS and Azure.
• Refactored Terraform from ARM templates to modular, reusable infrastructure components.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitLab for Hadoop and Databricks workloads.
• Implemented DevSecOps practices with Helm, ArgoCD, and Vault.
• Led cloud migration projects from on-premises environments to AKS.
• Supported large-scale AWS services including DynamoDB, EKS, ALB, Route53, and VPC with 24/7 on-call coverage.
• Ensured security and compliance with DDoS protection, WAF, and Azure AD app registrations.
• Led migration from Thanos to MinIO and Grafana Mimir for metric storage optimization.
• Centralized monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, FluentBit, OpenTelemetry, and Elasticsearch.
• Integrated Istio, Kiali, Kafka, KEDA, and RabbitMQ.
• Performed test automation with Python, Selenium, and Apache Spark.
• Supported ADLS pipelines and Databricks and Hadoop workflows.

A blockchain gaming platform that provides gamers with access to digital games and gaming-related products through a decentralized ecosystem. The platform supports game distribution, digital ownership, and player-focused experiences.

• Managed GitLab CI/CD YAML pipelines across microservices for a blockchain gaming platform.
• Implemented ArgoCD with Vault integration for secure automated GitOps deployments.
• Configured ArgoCD SSO with GCP IAM for repository access control across MongoDB Atlas environments.
• Managed VPC, IAM, and GKE cluster resources on GCP and managed EKS and core AWS services.
• Administered Cloudflare for domain management, DNS security, WAF, and DDoS protection.
• Designed and maintained a multi-cluster service mesh architecture using Linkerd for secure east-west traffic.
• Built a centralized monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, FluentBit, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry, and Elasticsearch.

A technology platform supporting digital products and services across media, telecommunications, and other business operations. The solutions focus on reliable digital experiences, operational efficiency, and scalable technology infrastructure.

• Administered more than 280 Ubuntu machines using Ansible for configuration management, patching, and compliance.
• Led CI/CD standardization by migrating pipelines from GitHub, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps to GitLab.
• Supported AWS migration from local Rancher to EKS and maintained AWS services including S3, EKS, ALB, ACLs, and Route53.
• Operated Kubernetes workloads using Helm, Rancher, Kiali, and Jaeger.
• Dockerized web applications and deployed containerized services to production Kubernetes clusters.
• Reduced pipeline complexity and build times by consolidating toolchains to GitLab CI/CD.
• Improved operational reliability with standardized Helm deployments and automated Ansible runbooks across 280+ hosts.