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Damla Akyol

@damlaakyol

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I build reliable data pipelines and production platforms across Spark, cloud infrastructure, and Kubernetes.

Sweden

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for work where data engineering and platform engineering meet: reliable pipelines, production infrastructure, and the systems that keep critical data services running.

I've built and operated data platforms at Ericsson, Metry, Definitive Healthcare, and Axis Communications, from enterprise Spark ETL processing telecom data to cloud-native energy data pipelines and reporting models. At Ericsson, I rebuilt an internal analytics database and reduced dashboard load times from 30–60 seconds to roughly half a second.

Since early 2025, I've independently designed and run a reproducible 25-service Linux production platform with Git-based deployment, Kubernetes, observability, secrets, ingress, TLS, and verified backups. I'm most interested in the space where data engineering meets platform engineering: keeping critical pipelines running and building the systems underneath them.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Independent Platform Engineering

Current

Self-directed

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 7 months)

Designed and operate a 25-service production Linux platform, fully declarative and reproducible from a Git repository alone, covering secrets, ingress and TLS, observability and backup. Built the secrets architecture on SOPS and age with a TPM-sealed key, and designed the backup layer around verified recoverability.

Linux Git SOPs Aged TPM Kubernetes Docker Prometheus Grafana Loki GitOps

Consultant

Sigma Technology Software Solutions

Aug 2024 - Jan 2025 (5 months)

Client assignment as Data Engineer at Axis Communications, building and maintaining production ETL pipelines in Dagster with dbt models, introducing data contracts, and working with ClickHouse for analytical datasets.

Dagster DBT Clickhouse Kubernetes Docker ETL

Staff Software Engineer / Data Platform Engineer

Metry

Apr 2023 - Mar 2024 (11 months)

Led architecture and implementation of cloud-native ETL/ELT pipelines for large-scale energy data, designed the GCP side of the platform including BigQuery models, and acted as technical lead across several teams.

GCP BigQuery ETL ELT Data Modeling Technical Leadership Architecture

Data Engineer

Definitive Healthcare

Aug 2022 - Jan 2023 (5 months)

Worked on Spark and Java ingestion and transformation pipelines, focusing on performance and reliability improvements, and tuned Spark workloads to reduce runtime and improve resource use on AWS.

Spark Java AWS ETL

Data Engineer, later also Scrum Master

Ericsson

Aug 2018 - Apr 2022 (3 years 8 months)

Rebuilt the SQL database behind an internal analytics dashboard, reducing load time from 30-60 seconds to half a second. Owned enterprise-scale ETL pipelines processing telecom network data, with extensive Spark performance tuning and automated data quality validation.