Resume

Activities and Societies: Developer Student Club at Lambton, LinkedIn Learning Community

Capstone Project: Building a Hybrid Cloud with Monitoring

Activities and Societies: Baskent Computer Science Society, Travel Club

Graduation Project: 3D Game Simulator

• Orchestrated and optimized over 20 Kubernetes clusters, implementing best practices in cluster security, RBAC, and network policies, ensuring compliance with frameworks like SOC2 and PCI for high availability and scalability.
• Elevated Kubernetes security and operational standards across 20 clusters by enforcing policies as code and introducing best practices for cluster governance and access control, ensuring consistent compliance and enhanced resilience across deployments.
• Implemented Karpenter Autoscaler in AWS EKS clusters, resulting in significant cost savings ranging from 42% to 74% per cluster.
• Designed and automated scalable GCP cloud infrastructure for microservices architecture using Terraform, implementing CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployment, while optimizing performance and cost efficiency.
• Designed scalable, secure GCP cloud infrastructure for microservices architecture using Terraform, with CI/CD pipelines optimizing performance, cost, and security.
• Implemented Kubernetes MongoDB Operator and Ops Manager to optimize over 10 MongoDB clusters, ensuring peak performance and reliability through meticulous deployment and maintenance.
• Successfully migrated self-hosted MongoDB clusters to Kubernetes MongoDB Operator Model.
• Successfully migrated 17 GitLab CI/CD pipelines to self-hosted GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Implemented HashiCorp Boundary within Kubernetes clusters, meticulously configured via Terraform, revolutionizing team access to infrastructure through a zero-trust framework.
• Conducted annual disaster recovery assessments independently and collaborated on strategizing enhancements for disaster recovery capabilities.
• Led the creation of new cloud environments on AWS, meticulously provisioning resources to align with business needs and project objectives.
• Providing 24x7 support in high-availability Kubernetes environments as part of an on-call rotation.
• Mentored fellow peers and co-op engineers, fostering collaborative growth within the team.

• Oversaw provisioning of cloud resources on AWS, optimizing allocation to meet project requirements and budget constraints effectively.
• Achieved 98% PCI/DSS compliance on Security Hub by rigorously reviewing and remediating cloud environments while also implementing PCI/DSS and SOC II security measures for continual compliance.
• Helping and supporting developers on a day-to-day basis to troubleshoot issues related to networking and deployment in the SDLC. Troubleshooting the Kubernetes resources to keep them up and running.
• Deployed observability stack to support monitoring (Prometheus) and tracing in the Kubernetes Cluster.
• Developed and maintained DevOps tools for the team, including deployment scripts and utilities.
• Maintained self-hosted GitLab and built infrastructure pipelines for efficient CI/CD.

• Advised the Google DSC team at Lambton College, mentoring the lead and supporting workshops and student engagement.

• Selected by Google to be the Google DSC Lead for the 2020-2021 year at Lambton College.
• Led a team of 8 in organizing workshops in Cloud Computing that engaged 150 students in developing tech solutions.
• Hosted a career development event with Google DSC, open to all universities in North America, reaching more than a thousand students through YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.