Kemal CAN

Senior DevOps Engineer | Azure & Terraform

Salary / Daily rate

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Remote only

Skills

DevOpsSite reliability engineeringMicroservicesAzureDigitalOceanPostgreSQLBackend DevelopmentFullstack DevelopmentMariaDBOracle DatabaseMySQLMicrosoft SQL ServerRabbitMQKafkaElasticsearch

Languages

English

About me

Intro

DevOps Engineer with 5+ years automating cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Reduced deployment times by 40% using Terraform/Azure while managing 200+ servers for global e-commerce platforms. Expert in Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS with proven success in microservices architecture and monitoring solutions.

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Work experience

KC Global SoftwareFreelance

Jun 2023 - Jan 2025

1 year 8 months

Amsterdam Area · Remote

DevOps Engineer

May 2024 - Jan 2025

9 months

Amsterdam Area · Remote

coolblue Project and Responsibilities; Implemented Azure cloud infrastructure automation with Terraform improving resource provisioning speed by 40% and cutting manual errors by 25%, supporting a scalable environment for 200+ servers. Created an AKS Kubernetes Cluster in the Azure portal, with the Azure CLI and used template-driven deployment options such as Resource Manager Templates and Terraform. Configuration and implementing Azure Load Balancer in microservices E-commerce projects Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to ensure seamless integration, testing, and deployment for the Global Marketplace application. Implemented monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus Monitor to track application health and performance, ensuring its smooth and reliable operation.

DevOps Engineer

Jun 2023 - May 2024

1 year

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Debijenkorf Project and Responsibilities; Hard working with a sense of responsibility in an Agile development environment, including Scrum; Collaborating with a team of Software engineers, working in an Agile environment, to continuously improve the B2B platform and drive innovation. Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI of a B2B project in development. Automating tasks and processes with Python scripting. Implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, or Ansible. Monitoring metrics and creating alerts for all software development processes using monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana. Used technologies: Web-crawling, Scrapy, Proxy, Agile Methodologies, Python, Git, Redis, MySQL, Nodejs, CI/CD, AWS, YAML File, Terraform, Ansible, Ubuntu linux.

DevOps Engineer

Expat Professionals

Nov 2022 - Jul 2023

9 months

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Projects and Responsibilities; Worked hard on features or bug fix tickets, focused and tackled them. Aligning with the team and collaborating with project improvement meetings or team meetings like refinement, Retrospective, sprint planning, etc., installing, administering Docker containerization and administration and Kubernetes based microservices, Linux systems, web servers (nginx, apache2, nodejs), and databases (MySql, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis) Integration of new equipment to the platform and performing acceptance tests. The most used tools are Docker, Kubernetes, Agile Methodologies, Jenkins, Git, CI/CD, Linux, Azure, and DevOps. My coding style includes that code to be future fit and up to standards. Like to innovate and find solutions to problems. Challenges excite me.

UNİVERSAL BANK

Nov 2019 - Aug 2022

2 years 10 months

DevOps Engineer

May 2020 - Aug 2022

2 years 4 months

- Actively involved in production issues and support to operation team for troubleshoot. - Align with Microsoft for continues improvement in product via training, workshops or open discussions over the calls. • Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS, automating provisioning, configuration, and scaling using Terraform and Ansible to improve infrastructure consistency and reduce deployment times. • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab, automating the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from code commit to production deployment. • Containerized applications using Docker and orchestrated them using Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and scalability across environments. • Applied security best practices, including managing access control using IAM roles and implementing automated patch management to maintain infrastructure security. • Provided training to new team members on cloud infrastructure, DevOps best practices, and automation tools, contributing to team knowledge and improving operational workflows. • Achievements: Awarded for exceptional performance as an emerging engineer and recognized for contributions to DevOps projects.

Linux Administrator & Software Developer

Nov 2019 - May 2020

7 months

Nicosia, Cyprus

Projects and Responsibilities; Experienced Java developer with Microservices; Frameworks and Services : Spring Boot (Spring Core, MVC, JPA, Security) NoSQL : Cosmos DB, Mongo DB Message Broker : Rabbit MQ Microservice oriented development. NoSQL : Mongo DB - Lead developer - working on cross platforms. - Design and development of new features as per demand. - Using Data structures, Design patterns, Java 8 features, Caching, Multi-threading - Closely working with our Solution Architect for planning and developing new features, integrate different services as per demand. - Good hands-on for bug fixing in existing code. - Unit test cases with code coverage (JUnit 5, Jacoco, NUnit) - Implementation of new patterns to LUIS, QnA, Cosmos DB code for improve performance and reduce cost. - Using MongoDB and Cosmos DB in projects. - Experience to write Java Microservices from the scratch as well features updates.

Senior Software Engineer

Ciner Yayin Holding

Jul 2014 - Aug 2019

5 years 2 months

İstanbul, Türkiye

● Took over a failed project and helped the company with a successful launch of the current haberturk.com. ● Created new platform with codeigniter framework for a near future launch of a new haberturk.com site based on the codeigniter framework. ● Performed server code optimization using PHP. ● Expanded and customized existing MVC model using CodeIgniter, Laravel GIT, REST, Soap web services. ● Performed split tests for increased UX/UI responsive performance and conversion rates using Visual Website Optimizer. Backend Skills: Object Oriented Programming/MVC model, Core PHP + OOP, Design Patterns, NodeJS, Express, MVC, Agile, Frontend Skills: HTML + CSS (LESS/SASS) + Bootstrap, JQuery, AJAX, JSON, XML Domain: haberturk.com – htkulup.haberturk.com – hthayat.haberturk.com - tv.haberturk.com

TechTonic

Sep 2008 - Jul 2014

5 years 11 months

On-site

Full Stack Developer

Aug 2011 - Jul 2014

3 years

On-site

FEDEX Express Description: It is a shipping location web site, tracking, shipping parts Of FedEx Express that have biggest cargo company all over the world. Each part are least currents from 5th parts. The page can submits almost at each step without page load on the system. This can be cargo proceedings until reach to goal on this cause. at the same time, it gets additional codes for the web site. It have made outsourcing in USA with SVN/Perforce. Translation of the system to language other than English can be done by a client himself, and will not take a lot of time since all the text, messages and HTML templates are not crypted. Technologies Used : JAVA, JSP, JUnit, Servlet, Apache Tomcat, Jdeveloper IDE, Structs Framework, XHTML, CSS.

Back End Developer

Sep 2008 - Aug 2011

3 years

On-site

PikoNews, The world revolves around news Description: PikoNews is a news portal. It uses google map. When it starts the main page, it loads the animation. It moves news details and images of the news in the blue points at around the red points in side left of the browser. It has used google map(Gmap)with all the details. It has made outsourcing in USA with SVN/Perforce. Technologies Used : PHP 5.2, PHPUnit, Google Map, MySQL 5.0, Apache httpd.conf configrations, .htpasswd to junction, Xajax, MySQL 5.1, Apache Web Server 2.2. BiggVehicle Description : This is online vehicle System. Users can create membership with driver’s License, their identity, passport and credit card on this System. Users rent a car in 5 steps in Online Car Renting System and after the 5th step system gives the renting confirmation and the invoice is made out.Doesn’t refresh the page to passing through next step from the current step and updates the service amount. all the details are thought about car rentting process. Also system shows tips to users about what to do. Technologies Used : PHP 5.1, AJAX, CSS 2.1 Specification, Javascript Framework(mootools), MySQL 5.0, Web 2.0, PHPEclipse IDE for Object Oriented OOP PHP5 and PHPUnit.


Education

Sabanci University

Master's degree

2013 - 2015

2 years 3 months

Sakarya University

Bachelor of Education

2002 - 2008

6 years 4 months

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