Experience
Ten years, from hospital infrastructure to fintech DevOps.
2024
— Present
DevOps Engineer
İnfina Yazılım
Leading DevOps processes, transformation and infrastructure modernization for a fintech product family.
- Built the DevOps practice from scratch — established CI/CD practices, automation frameworks and deployment standards
- Jenkins pipeline modernization — migrated Freestyle jobs to declarative pipelines (5+ products); removed per-project pipeline duplication with a Groovy Shared Library and dynamic tag / branch selection through the Gitea API
- CI/CD pipeline development — build, test and deployment automation for multiple customer environments with GitHub Actions workflows, including WAR packaging, database scripts and container image builds
- Pipeline security and code quality — container / dependency security scanning with Trivy and Snyk, SonarQube quality gate integration, code signing, and secret scanning steps added to the CI flow
- Containerization and orchestration — moved legacy applications to Docker, deployed with Kubernetes manifests and Helm charts, dual registry push to Harbor and Nexus; 40% reduction in resource usage
- Application server infrastructure — WildFly HA cluster deployment (JGroups TCP/TCPPING) and a secure UBI-based production base image
- Kafka infrastructure — set up a 3-node KRaft cluster and managed financial event topics
- Server automation with Ansible — inventory-based configuration management, with application server operations integrated into the Jenkins pipeline
- Observability and alerting — Prometheus alert / recording rules, custom Grafana dashboards, Alertmanager; a multi-channel alerting service sending email / Slack / Teams notifications from Kafka and log sources
Python / Bash / Groovy / Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Docker / Kubernetes (RKE2) / Helm / Rancher / Ansible / Harbor / Nexus / Trivy / SonarQube / Kafka / Prometheus / Grafana / Loki / WildFly / Nginx / PostgreSQL / Linux
2022
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Systems Specialist
İnfina Yazılım
Infrastructure management and containerization initiatives.
- Hybrid environment management — operated Windows Server and Linux Ubuntu infrastructure for software applications
- Containerization pioneer — started Docker adoption and created standardized deployment processes
- Resource optimization — reduced infrastructure costs through virtualization and container orchestration
- Technical support for development teams — guidance on application deployment and system integration
Windows Server / Ubuntu / Docker
2020
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Systems Specialist
Ultralab & Güvenmed Tıbbi Grup
Building IT infrastructure from scratch for medical organizations.
- Corporate IT department setup — created the system architecture, domain structure and backup infrastructure for a multi-company group
- High availability design — real-time replication with Veeam Backup and redundant server configuration
- 24/7 medical operations continuity — built fault-tolerant systems that provide uninterrupted access to patient results
- Ran IT operations across 100+ users and 10 affiliated companies
- Key achievement: transformed organizations with no IT infrastructure into fully managed, redundant enterprise environments
Veeam / Active Directory / Windows Server
2017
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Systems Specialist
Eren Hastanesi
Sole person responsible for critical healthcare infrastructure — part-time from November 2020.
- Sustaining 24/7 hospital operations — uninterrupted service for critical medical systems and patient data
- Critical incident management — fast diagnosis and resolution under pressure without letting operations stop
- Government systems integration — managed public healthcare integrations through the Hospital Information Management System (HBYS)
- Enterprise infrastructure — deep experience managing VMware ESXi, Veeam, Active Directory and firewalls
- Complex technical problem solving — advanced troubleshooting through research and industry collaboration
- Impact: 99.9% uptime on critical healthcare systems for 3+ years
VMware ESXi / Veeam / Active Directory / Firewall
2016
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Systems Specialist
Monekül Bilgi Teknolojileri
Turnkey IT infrastructure implementation from small offices to enterprise scale.
- Turnkey IT infrastructure implementation from small offices to enterprise scale
- Worked with security, firewall, server, NAS and storage technologies
- End-user support and technical communication
Firewall / NAS / Storage