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Ferat I.

Chicago,IL

Summary

Motivated and result-driven DevOps Engineer with extensive years of experience focusing on container orchestration, IaC tools & Automation. Passionate about Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and other automation and containerization tools. Excellent communication, interpersonal, intuitive, and analysis skills with the ability to work efficiently both independently and team environments.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Platform Engineer

Aptive Environmental
01.2023 - Current
  • Utilized Terraform and Pulumi for infrastructure as code (IaC) to provision cloud resources efficiently.
  • Employed Kubernetes for application deployment and environment updates, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Led migration of applications from traditional virtual machines to Kubernetes clusters to reduce costs through improved efficiency and optimized infrastructure management.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, streamlining thedevelopment process and enabling rapid iterations.
  • Enhanced developer productivity by providing flexible and efficient methods to modify environment configurations directly from GitHub Actions.
  • Leveraged Datadog for monitoring and observability, ensuring system performance and availability meet desired standards.
  • Proficiently utilized AWS services including EC2, S3, SQS, IAM users, and roles for resource provisioning and management in cloud environments.
  • Enhanced platform performance by optimizing infrastructure and implementing automation tools.
  • Reduced deployment time for applications through efficient configuration management processes.
  • Spearheaded migration efforts to cloud-based infrastructure, resulting in improved scalability and cost savings.
  • Collaborated on cross-functional teams to drive platform improvements and deliver business value.

DevOps Engineer

The Home Depot
09.2021 - 01.2023
  • Built Terraform module for Datadog dashboards to monitor services
  • Created alerts in Datadog with Terraform to notify users on different platforms
  • Used PagerDuty to send alerts from Datadog when there is an error or service usage that passed the threshold
  • Scheduled on-call between the US and offshore teams in Terraform by using different time zones
  • Created synthetic monitoring to check that HTTP responses are healthy in Datadog
  • Integrated SonarCloud with GitHub actions to monitor code quality
  • Created code monitoring for long-lived and short-lived branches and PRs in SonarCloud
  • Created dynamic resources in Terraform
  • Integrated Slack with PagerDuty to receive alerts from Datadog
  • Run performance testing in an EC2 ubuntu machine to see how events are received per mins in Datadog metrics.

DevOps Engineer

Beyond Finance
07.2019 - 09.2021
  • Deployed Docker Container using Helm Chart into Kubernetes Clusters
  • Managed Kubernetes on AWS with EKS
  • Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2 and auto-scaling
  • Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Delivery
  • Created and updated AWS AMI Images using Packer
  • Built custom Terraform Modules for projects to manage code as DRY
  • Created and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Jenkins
  • Supported and worked alongside Agile development teams to ensure they have all the facilities
  • Worked closely with developers to build their development pipeline and deploy code to various environments.

Cloud Engineer

Expedia Group
05.2017 - 07.2019
  • Used AWS S3 bucket to save users' files
  • Deployed website from front to backend using JavaScript, HTML, ReactJS, and NodeJS
  • Created Python scripts for automation
  • Designed architecture of microservices and web applications
  • Implemented software components of highly available, scalable, and robust cloud services
  • Built and maintained reusable code and libraries
  • Worked with PostgreSQL to manage data for applications
  • Worked with Agile/Scrum Environment to ensure features were delivered effectively
  • Work with Software Engineers, Product Managers, and QA Engineers in an Agile team environment.

Education

Bachelor of Science -

Dicle University
Turkey
06.2014

Skills

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • Datadog
  • Docker
  • Amazon Web Service (AWS)
  • Terraform Cloud
  • Linux
  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions
  • SonarCloud
  • PagerDuty
  • JavaScript

Certification

  • The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
  • Certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solution Architect Associate, Amazon Web Services
  • Certified Terraform Associate, Terraform
  • Certified Jenkins Engineer
  • Certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Certified Web Developer, Northwestern University Coding Bootcamp

Timeline

Platform Engineer

Aptive Environmental
01.2023 - Current

DevOps Engineer

The Home Depot
09.2021 - 01.2023

DevOps Engineer

Beyond Finance
07.2019 - 09.2021

Cloud Engineer

Expedia Group
05.2017 - 07.2019

Bachelor of Science -

Dicle University

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