Alperen DIL
Chicago,IL
Summary
DevOps Engineer with 5 years of experience, holding multiple industry certifications. Expert in architecting and implementing highly efficient Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines utilizing advanced containerization, orchestration, and monitoring tools, alongside robust infrastructure automation and configuration management systems. Proficient in leveraging AWS services to design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environments. Passionate about automating IT processes to drive operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention. Adept in using Jira for project management and skilled in applying Agile methodologies to optimize development cycles. A strong team player with proven leadership abilities, empathy, and an understanding of diverse cultural environments. Equipped with exceptional communication, time management, and problem-solving skills, ensuring seamless collaboration and successful project delivery.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
BlueChip Financials
12.2022 - Current
- Architected and deployed a comprehensive infrastructure for multiple microservices on AWS Lambda using Terraform, integrating key AWS services such as S3, CloudWatch Alarms, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store, KMS keys, IAM policies and roles, RDS, and Redis, resulting in a scalable and secure microservices architecture.
- Utilized Terraform to architect, build, and manage comprehensive AWS infrastructure, including services such as VPCs, Subnets, ASGs, ELBs, RDS, ECS, S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and CodePipeline, ensuring scalable and resilient cloud environments.
- Spearheaded the upgrade of RDS instances across all environments—Dev, QA, and Prod—by updating SSL certificates and configuring Multi-AZ for high availability and disaster recovery, ensuring robust and secure database operations.
- Developed and deployed proofs of concept for cutting-edge solutions using AWS Lambda, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy, demonstrating potential improvements in system performance and cost efficiency.
- Developed a robust CI/CD pipeline from the ground up using CircleCI for AWS Lambda services, seamlessly integrating with AWS CodeBuild and CodeDeploy, and engineered custom CircleCI jobs to automate the deployment process, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of software releases.
- Conducted comprehensive vulnerability scans across EC2 instances, Lambda functions, and ECR repositories in all AWS accounts using AWS Inspector; meticulously documented vulnerabilities and implemented remediation strategies to enhance the overall security posture of the infrastructure.
- Improved system reliability through proactive monitoring and troubleshooting of network issues using AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry, and PagerDuty, enhancing user experience by minimizing downtime.
- Established comprehensive event monitoring and alerting systems using Datadog and AWS CloudWatch, and designed custom dashboards for Kubernetes and AWS Lambda to enhance visibility and response times to critical issues.
- Optimized resource usage by implementing and managing infrastructure as code using Terraform and Pulumi, leading to cost efficiencies.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA, and Data Science, to streamline application development and deployment cycles, utilizing tools like Jira and CircleCI for continuous integration and delivery.
- Leveraged CircleCI pipelines to automate microservices builds, pushing them to Docker registry, and orchestrated deployments to Kubernetes, efficiently creating and managing Pods on EKS.
DevOps Engineer
Expedia Group
06.2021 - 12.2022
- Deployed multiple tools (Jenkins, Grafana, Nexus, Prometheus, Ingress Controller) on EKS using Terraform and Helm Charts
- Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic apps into microservices, improving developer workflow, and optimizing speed
- Set up event monitoring and alerting in Prometheus and create monitoring dashboards using Grafana for Kubernetes
- Designed, built, and maintained AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Jenkins for different stages such as Dev, QA, and Prod environments
- Used Jenkins pipelines to drive all microservices builds out to Docker registry and then deployed to Kubernetes, created Pods on EKS
- Built CI/CD pipelines while incorporating automated testing and vulnerability scanning
- Created Ansible playbooks to automatically install packages from repository, to change configuration of remotely configured machines
- Used Terraform to build and manage AWS infrastructure and services including VPCs, Subnets, Internet Gateways, NAT, Route Tables, ASG, ELB, EC2, RDS, ECS, and S3 buckets
- Deployed applications using automation and orchestration throughout entire software development lifecycle
- Deployed production-ready, load-balanced, highly available, and fault-tolerant three-tier applications with Terraform while utilizing AWS Fargate.
Cloud Engineer
Expedia Group
07.2020 - 06.2021
- Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing
- Supported technical solutions to fulfill business needs, resolved issues, and enhanced company's efforts to define, analyze, and documenting requirements
- Provisioned AWS services using AWS CLI/API, defining VPCs, Security Groups, LBs, Auto-Scaling, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, RDS ECS, IAM Policies/Groups, and Route53
- Identified, analyzed, and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
- Used wide variety of technologies, including open source technologies, cloud services (AWS, Azure), CI/CD, Terraform, Git, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance using Prometheus and Grafana.
Intern
Expedia Group
11.2019 - 07.2020
- Sorted and organized files, spreadsheets and reports
- Analyzed problems, identified solutions and made decisions
- Worked directly with development team to implement and improve Cloud applications
- Implemented applications and components through cloud application development
- Documented designs, built, automated test and deployed cloud applications
- Attended project team meetings with cloud application team as appropriate
- Participated in data collection, analysis, and recommendations.
IT Support Specialist
Efesales
02.2018 - 08.2018
- Created help desk tickets, troubleshot and resolved desktop issues
- Prepared new computers and mobile devices according to internal policies on standardized software and security deployments
- Performed scheduled service work, installations, testing and repairs
- Maintained on-prem servers for e-commerce website
- Executed troubleshooting and server support in both in-person and remote situations
- Provided secondary training to personnel struggling with technological tools and systems.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Cloud Computing And Solution
Purdue University
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of Illinois At Chicago
Chicago, IL06.2020
Associate of Science - Finance
University of Illinois At Chicago
Chicago, IL06.2020
Skills
- DevOps Systems
- Kubernetes
- Docker Products
- Terraform
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Helm / Ansible
- Jenkins / GitLab / CircleCI
- Nexus / Maven
- Prometheus / Grafana
- DataDog / PagerDuty
- Git / GitHub
- Python / Linux / Bash
- SQL / HTML / CSS
- JIRA
Certification
- AWS Certified Developer Associate Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner (BETA) Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
BlueChip Financials
12.2022 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Expedia Group
06.2021 - 12.2022
Cloud Engineer
Expedia Group
07.2020 - 06.2021
Intern
Expedia Group
11.2019 - 07.2020
IT Support Specialist
Efesales
02.2018 - 08.2018
Bachelor of Science - Cloud Computing And Solution
Purdue University
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
University of Illinois At Chicago
Associate of Science - Finance
University of Illinois At Chicago
- AWS Certified Developer Associate Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner (BETA) Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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