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Software Development Engineer · Cloud & Edge · Siemens · Istanbul

I work on infrastructure — building it, keeping it running, keeping it locked down. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, CI/CD, observability, and Python/Go automation. The job is making systems cheaper, faster, and easier to operate.

Product software is not my lane. Internal tooling is: the runtimes, pipelines and scripts the platform runs on. I write those with a model in the loop, which is the only reason one person can maintain this much of them.

B.Sc. Computer Engineering · Istanbul Bilgi University · 2022—2026 · full scholarship, top 0.3% nationally.

Tooling

Written for my own work first, with an agent doing the typing. Both are open because the platform problems they solve are not mine alone.

  • axon
    A Go runtime for LLM agents. Handles the agent loop, streaming, tool dispatch, sessions, and context pruning, so the next tool I need is a config away instead of a rewrite.
  • synapse
    A terminal coding agent built on axon. Token-efficient, byte-exact undo, YAML personalities, works with OpenAI, Claude, and Ollama.

Work

Mar 2025 — Present

Software Development Engineer · Cloud, Edge

SiemensIstanbul

  • Cut AWS Glue ETL runtime from 3 hrs to 7 min via watermark-based incremental processing — about $6K/year saved.
  • Memory-profiled Python analytics pipelines, cut consumption 40%, eliminated cluster OOM crashes.
  • Deployed Loki for centralized log aggregation across distributed systems.
  • Integrated Wiz security platform into CI/CD for container scanning and Terraform validation.
  • Contributed to sensor data pipelines feeding Drivetrain Analyzer Cloud for predictive maintenance.
Oct 2024 — Mar 2025

Software Engineer Intern

Orion InnovationIstanbul

  • Contributed to a Flutter → React migration; rebuilt the real-time network traffic visualization dashboard.
  • Refactored a legacy FastAPI backend into a clean modular structure.
  • Researched and evaluated open-source PII data masking solutions for production compliance.
Aug 2024 — Oct 2024

R&D DevOps Engineer Intern

NevotekIstanbul

  • Implemented blue-green deployment with Azure Web Apps slots for zero-downtime releases.
  • Built reusable Terraform modules for consistent multi-cloud infrastructure deployment.
  • Built a cloud-agnostic CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Helm charts.
  • Optimized Docker images with multi-stage builds; integrated Trivy vulnerability scanning.
Nov 2023 — Mar 2024

Student Research Assistant

Istanbul Bilgi UniversityIstanbul

  • Cleaned and structured research datasets for analysis, turning raw tables into reviewable outputs.
  • Built Python analysis notebooks for exploratory data analysis, statistical summaries, and visual reporting.
  • Helped the research team compare patterns across datasets and present findings in a clearer, reproducible format.
Jan 2023 — Jan 2024

Software Engineer Intern

SummarifyIstanbul

  • Built RAG pipelines using FAISS vector databases and LangChain for document Q&A.
  • Reduced report generation time from 60 min to 5 min with Python/Flask + LLM automation.
  • Built RESTful APIs processing 50GB+ of social media data for sentiment analysis.
  • Migrated 100GB of data from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage using a staged transfer approach.

Certifications