Sevket Kursad Kahya Senior Devops Consultant

Senior DevOps Consultant

Opsfleet

Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 10 months)

• Providing DevOps consulting services, delivering tailored infrastructure,
monitoring, and automation solutions to startups and enterprises.
• Designed and deployed turnkey infrastructure and monitoring solutions for
multiple startups, ensuring scalability and reliability from day one.
• Mentoring mid-level DevOps engineers, guiding them through
troubleshooting and best practices.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Hunters

Jun 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 7 months)

• Designed and managed AWS infrastructure with Terraform, improving
security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Built a robust monitoring stack using Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana,
enabling real-time insights and proactive issue resolution.
• Helped reduce cloud expenses by $30K per month through architectural
improvements.
• Handled on-call responsibilities with PagerDuty, quickly resolving critical
incidents to minimize downtime.
• Optimized CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery, reducing
deployment time and improving reliability.
• Guided developers on DevOps best practices, fostering collaboration
between development and operations teams.
• Strengthened infrastruc

Senior DevOps Engineer

Nexstar Media Group, Inc

Oct 2021 - Jun 2022 (9 months)

• Streamlined provisioning, scaling, and modification of microservices
architectures using Terraform and Kubernetes, ensuring efficient and
scalable operations.
• Delivered significant cost savings in AWS by optimizing S3 storage and
improving website performance and cost efficiency through the strategic
use of Fastly and CloudFront for CDN.
• Led the transition from Datadog to the ELK Stack, optimizing costs while
creating insightful dashboards to enhance data visualization and analysis

Senior DevOps Engineer

Afiniti

Aug 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 year 4 months)

• Pioneered the creation of streamlined installation solutions, enabling one-
click deployment to reduce setup complexity and improve time-to-value
for customers.
• Applied deep troubleshooting expertise in complex environments,
delivering quick resolutions and maintaining high levels of satisfaction while
minimizing downtime.
• Collaborated with the production services team to enhance the
management of solutions at customer sites, ensuring smooth delivery and
implementation for clients.

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Turkcell Technology

Sep 2019 - Aug 2020 (1 year)

• Contributed to the company-wide DevOps transition, ensuring seamless
adoption of best practices and principles across all departments.
• Led the successful migration from outdated project management tools to
Atlassian products, focusing on JIRA for enhanced project tracking and
collaboration.
• Re-architected Jenkins instances and optimized associated pipelines,
driving improvements in speed, maintainability, and overall efficiency.
• Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines, empowering DevOps leads to drive
activities within their squads, improving delivery speed and aligning with
DevOps principles.

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DevOps Engineer

TÜBİTAK BİLGEM Cyber Security Institute

May 2015 - Aug 2019 (4 years 4 months)

• Deployed and managed a highly distributed OpenStack private cloud,
utilizing advanced features like OVS and SR-IOV for network performance
optimization.
• Installed and maintained CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure, including
Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, and Atlassian products.
• Led the migration from Docker Compose to Kubernetes, re-architecting
microservices for improved scalability and efficiency.
• Trained new employees on cybersecurity fundamentals, leveraging my
background in cybersecurity and extensive hands-on experience in cloud
infrastructure and Linux networking.

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Electronic Engineer

Metro Istanbul

Jan 2014 - Apr 2015 (1 year 4 months)

• Designed an IP-based embedded communication unit for use in trams,
utilizing a lightweight IP stack for efficient communication
• Developed applications on an STM32F4 ARM-based microcontroller and
contributed to circuit and PCB design.

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