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Ömer Karataş

@merkarata

Head of DevOps at Tradition Asia, shaping cloud and Kubernetes platforms and driving security, reliability and delivery across its regional software portfolio.

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At Tradition Asia, I lead the DevOps function and own platform strategy, security posture, observability and delivery tooling for the regional software portfolio. I lead and develop the team while setting priorities for cloud and Kubernetes platforms, security governance and reliability.

As DevOps Architect at Tradition Asia, I drove the migration of legacy software to Kubernetes and implemented cloud infrastructure on AWS with Terraform. Earlier, at ASPone Ltd. and Cybersoft, I worked across multi-cloud infrastructure, banking software delivery and middleware; my research at Işık University focused on graph algorithms and wireless sensor network localisation.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of DevOps

Current

Tradition Asia

Jul 2022 - Present (4 years 4 months)

Lead the DevOps function at Tradition Asia, owning platform strategy, security posture, observability and delivery tooling for its regional software portfolio. Drive security governance, cost optimisation, and reliability roadmap.

AWS Kubernetes Terraform ArgoCD Kyverno Tetragon Falco HashiCorp Vault Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry FinOps Disaster Recovery Team Leadership

DevOps Architect

Tradition Asia

Nov 2019 - Jul 2022 (2 years 8 months)

Drove cloud migration and implemented modern DevOps solutions for a global financial services leader. Spearheaded migration of legacy software to Kubernetes, architected cloud infrastructure with Terraform on AWS, and implemented end-to-end software lifecycle solutions.

AWS Kubernetes Terraform Helm ArgoCD Cilium Karpenter Amazon EKS Cost Optimization

DevOps Engineer

ASPone Ltd.

Jan 2016 - Jun 2019 (3 years 5 months)

Delivered DevOps solutions and managed multi-cloud infrastructure across a diverse portfolio of software projects. Administered cloud services across AWS, Rackspace and Google Cloud Platform, built monitoring solutions, and led exploration of Kubernetes and Docker.

AWS Rackspace Google Cloud Platform Terraform Ansible Sensu Cloudwatch Ruby Elastic Stack Red Hat Fuse Red Hat JBoss EAP Kubernetes Docker OpenShift

Group Leader — Cloud Banking

Cybersoft

Jun 2015 - Jan 2016 (7 months)

Group leader on the Cloud Banking project, defining the technical direction of the initiative. Evaluated and prototyped OpenStack-based solutions and planned banking solution architecture for a project in Azerbaijan.

OpenStack Cloud Architecture Banking Solutions

Group Leader — Systems & Network / Release & Configuration

Cybersoft

Sep 2012 - Jun 2015 (2 years 9 months)

Led the Systems & Network and Release & Configuration teams, driving automation and efficiency across banking software environments. Designed automated test environment creation, orchestrated issue-based lifecycle management, and developed migration automation solutions.

Ansible Vagrant Jython Websphere Git Ivy Bamboo STASH Jira Python Java Atlassian SDK SVN Django

Software Configuration and Release Manager

Cybersoft

Oct 2008 - Sep 2012 (3 years 11 months)

Led configuration management and release planning while providing expert-level middleware administration and performance optimisation for banking projects. Architected a bespoke release management model and orchestrated release planning using various tools.

JBoss IBM Websphere Oracle Weblogic Ant Jenkins Hudson DbUnit Jira Fisheye VisualVM RHQ Jopr GCViewer AppDynamics Dynatrace JProfiler SQL Server Oracle 11g Unix

Research Assistant

Işık University

Oct 2006 - Oct 2008 (2 years)

Conducted TÜBİTAK-funded research on the localisation problem in wireless sensor networks. Designed and developed simulations in C/C++ with the LEDA library and authored an MSc thesis on robust localization frameworks.

C C++LEDA Wireless Sensor Networks graph algorithms Research