ardaslan@prod-cluster — zsh

❯ kubectl describe engineer arda-aslan

name: Arda Aslan

role: Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer

company: Orion Innovation Turkey

location: Istanbul, TR 🇹🇷

experience: 8+ years

education:

# BSc Electronics & Comm. Eng. — Çankaya University

# MSc Software Engineering — METU

# MSc Computer Engineering — Bahçeşehir University (BAU)

The engineer who keeps production alive.

SRE and DevOps engineer with 8+ years of experience across AWS, Kubernetes, and large-scale cloud platforms. I design self-healing systems, automate everything with IaC, and make sure incidents wake me up — not you.

$ get-in-touch ./resume.pdf ↓

Experience

8+ yrs

since Aug 2017

Uptime

99.9%

avg. uptime maintained

Projects

10+

projects worked on

experience

Experience

FREDAPP

DevOps Engineer

Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, automating build, test, and deployment workflows across environments.
Integrated unit testing and SAST/dependency scanning stages into pipelines to enforce code quality and security gates.
Implemented automated vulnerability detection for third-party dependencies, reducing supply chain risk exposure.

Orion Innovation Turkey

Client: Honeywell

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Managed and optimized multi-cluster AWS EKS/ECS production environments across multiple regions and accounts.
Automated provisioning and configuration using Terraform and GitOps via FluxCD.
Performed incident management, on-call rotations, RCA reports, and permanent remediation planning.
Designed and implemented observability stack: OpenSearch, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch.
Improved scalability using Cluster Autoscaler, node group tuning, and cost optimization.
Enhanced security posture: ACM certificates, IAM policies, security groups, AWS Security Hub findings.
Delivered operational runbooks, playbooks, disaster recovery workflows, and HA architecture improvements.

Orion Innovation Turkey

Analytics Project

DevOps Engineer

Delivered analytics solution with OpenSearch and Apache NiFi, including performance optimizations in indexing and search operations.
Managed Kubernetes & Helm-based installations for Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, NiFi, Keycloak, Spark, Zookeeper, and Kong.
Built visual dashboards in OpenSearch Dashboards and data transfer pipelines in NiFi.
Managed On-Premise OpenShift environment; automated deployments, rollbacks, and upgrades with Ansible.
Identified and remediated CVE vulnerabilities in container images and dependencies; resolved critical security leaks through secrets auditing and least-privilege enforcement.

Orion Innovation Turkey

Client: Aware360

DevOps Engineer

Management and monitoring of Azure resources.
Designed Azure Pipelines and performed release deployments to testing, staging, and production environments.
Managed reporting tools Jasper and NextReports.

Orion Innovation Turkey

Client: AVAYA

DevOps Engineer

Automated day-1 configuration of Experience Portal product on Azure and GCP using Ansible.
Handled port, database, service, certificate, and license management via product APIs and Ansible.
Hands-on with GCloud commands, Cloud Keystore, and Cloud labels.

Orion Innovation Turkey

Kandy / System Engineering

DevOps & System Engineer

Managed product environments via upgrades, patching, license and network management; platform migrations from KVM to VMware.
Developed perfoTrek traffic simulation tool using NodeJS; scripted JMeter tests with Groovy.
Detected system limits and capacity bottlenecks; prepared engineering reports for CIM, RTCP-XR, CPaaS, UCaaS products.

The engineer who keeps production alive.

Tech Stack & Tools

Experience

Get in Touch

Let's talk 👋