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Fatih Küçük

@fkucuk

Azure Solutions Architect, 20 years in enterprise technology. Landing zones, governance and large-scale cloud migrations. Istanbul (UTC+3), remote.

Turkey

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What I'm looking for

I'm available immediately for enterprise architecture work focused on Azure, Kubernetes, event-driven systems, legacy modernisation, cloud governance, FinOps, and practical AI adoption across engineering teams.

I am a solutions architect working on Azure, Kubernetes and event-driven systems. 20 years in enterprise software, including ten-plus in technical leadership and architecture, across a career that has covered every layer from POS terminals in retail stores to the cloud platforms that run them.

Most of that career was at LC Waikiki, a global fashion retailer with 1,200+ stores in 55+ countries, where I moved from field support through software engineering to team lead, development manager and solutions architect. That path is what I would point a hiring team to: I design systems with a working knowledge of what happens when they fail at 6 PM on a Saturday in a busy store.

Work I am usually asked about:

A zero-downtime migration of 1 TB of production data from MSSQL to a document store, on a platform serving millions of daily transactions.
A DevOps blueprint that took the organisation from monthly releases to continuous delivery and was adopted company-wide.
Replacing Windows CE with Android across 3,000+ in-store devices used by 50,000+ staff.
Azure landing zone and governance standards, plus an architecture review board, for an enterprise cloud programme; a hybrid connectivity redesign alongside it.
FinOps work that cut monthly Azure spend by roughly 20%, including KEDA scale-to-zero that removed off-peak compute cost for worker workloads.
Since 2022, independent consulting — most recently a multi-year engagement delivering cloud-native architecture for a global workspace provider, including the .NET Core migration plan for a platform of 60 microservices behind an API gateway.

What interests me now is AI-assisted engineering as a serious architectural discipline, not autocomplete: I use Copilot and Claude Code daily, and I am building an architecture review agent for Azure/.NET codebases. I also care about FinOps and about event-driven design that stays legible to the people who have to operate it.

MSc in Computer Software Engineering (Boğaziçi), BSc in Economics. Based in Istanbul, UTC+3, available immediately.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Independent Solution Architect

Current

Own Consultancy Practice

Oct 2022 - Present (3 years 11 months)

Independent consulting delivering enterprise architecture for IWG (Regus, Spaces). Designed cloud-native architectures on Azure and Kubernetes, architected a new pricing engine, and optimized a RAG system for code documentation.

Azure Kubernetes KEDA Debezium RAG GitHub Co Pilot Claude Code Codex FinOps Event Driven Architecture

Solutions Architect

LC Waikiki

Mar 2022 - Oct 2022 (7 months)

Led MSSQL to MongoDB migration of 1 TB production data with zero downtime. Introduced event sourcing and distributed communication over Azure Service Bus, and built .NET worker services with KEDA scale-to-zero.

MSSQL MongoDB Azure Service Bus OpenTelemetry Application Insights .NET KEDA Event Sourcing

Software Development Manager

LC Waikiki

Sep 2020 - Mar 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Led digital transformation of the Retail Store Platform powering 1,000+ stores and millions of daily transactions. Built and mentored a cross-functional team, establishing a DevOps culture across the organization.

DevOps Team Leadership Digital Transformation Retail Platform Integration

Technical Architect

LC Waikiki

May 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year 4 months)

Authored the DevOps blueprint adopted org-wide, moving releases from monthly to continuous delivery. Established the architecture review board and defined landing-zone and governance standards, and led migration of back-office workloads to Azure.

DevOps CI CD Kubernetes Rancher OpenShift Kong API Gateway Azure Architecture Governance

Software Development Team Lead

LC Waikiki

Jul 2017 - May 2019 (1 year 10 months)

Grew team from 3 to 10 engineers and delivered the Omni-Channel Project with asynchronous REST API and Azure Service Bus. Led Android Transformation for 3,000+ devices and delivered regulatory-compliant retail systems for Istanbul Airport Duty-Free.

REST APIs Azure Service Bus Android Team Leadership Omnichannel