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Umut Gerçek

@umutgerek

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Software engineer specializing in SRE and DevOps practices.

Turkey

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for a role that fosters innovation and collaboration, where I can leverage my skills in SRE and DevOps to drive impactful projects.

I'm a dedicated software engineer with a strong focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps practices. Currently, I work at Picus Security, where I've successfully built an extensible alerting ecosystem and optimized AWS costs, saving the company over $50,000 annually. My experience includes developing platform tooling for AWS services and Kubernetes using Go, and designing monitoring infrastructures from scratch with Prometheus and Grafana.

Throughout my career, I've led various projects that have significantly improved operational efficiency. For instance, I implemented central monitoring for over 100 Kubernetes clusters and developed Terraform modules that adhere to best practices across multi-region and multi-account environments. My contributions to open-source projects, such as Odigos Go and Grafana k6, reflect my commitment to continuous learning and improvement in the tech community.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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SRE/DevOps Engineer

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Picus Security

Aug 2022 - Present (3 years 1 month)

Built an extensible alerting ecosystem across the organization, optimizing AWS and SaaS costs by over $50,000/year. Designed and implemented monitoring infrastructure from scratch using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager, building 50+ alerts and 15+ dashboards for 200+ EC2s.

AWS Kubernetes Go)Terraform Prometheus Grafana AlertManager Gitlab GitHub Docker

DevOps Engineer Intern

Digiturk

Jun 2022 - Present (3 years 3 months)

Automated AWS tasks, specifically IAM and WAF, using AWS Lambda, boto3, DynamoDB, and Terraform. Gained practical experience in cloud automation and infrastructure as code.

AWS Lambda DynamoDB Terraform IAM WAF

Full-Stack Software Intern

Ziraat Technology

Aug 2021 - Present (4 years 1 month)

Contributed to a currency conversion project, working on the API using ASP.NET and the job processing with .NET. Developed the frontend using React and managed operations with systemd and Docker.