Emrah Tufan
Development
Ankara, Turkey
Skills
DevOps
About
Emrah Tufan's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Emrah also has skills associated with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). Emrah Tufan has 13 years of work experience, with 6 years of management experience, including a mid-level position.
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Work Experience
Cloud Engineering Team Leader
The General Command of Gendarmerie
August 2019 - December 2023
- TÜRKİYE * As the founder of this team in Turkish Gendar merie, six main transformations were implemented. o Transformation of existing applications (Java, .NET and Django) to cloud native with developer teams, o Installation and administration of Kubernetes and Openshift clusters (container orchestration), o Migration of cloud native applications to Kubernetes and Openshift, o Building of CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps and Jenkins, creating DevSecOps culture in general, o Migration of some services to public cloud (mostly AWS) and administration of the ecosystem in there, o Introduction of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices with Ansible and Terraform. * As the previous one, this role was both executive and hands-on. More like a team member rather than the lead. * Varying deg ree of hands on experience in other tools such as docker, containerd, cri-o, git, Keycloak, Rancher, Harbor, ArgoCD, Velero, Helm, Gradle, service mesh with Istio, SonarQube, etcd, Ceph & Rook, HaProxy, Portworx, Clair, Falco, SysDig, Kyverno, Trivy, Hashicorp Vault, Elastic Search, Fluentd, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Nagios, JMeter and many AWS services.
Database and Application Servers Administration Team Leader
The General Command of Gendarmerie
August 2018 - August 2019
- TÜRKİYE * Under this title, my responsibilities were to lead the team who were responsible of the whole application and database server ecosystem. * It was more of an executive role rather than administrative, involving provision of technical guidance to the team and daily hands-on work. Shell (bash) and python script development/maintenance was a daily task.
Database and Application Servers Administrator
The General Command of Gendarmerie
June 2017 - August 2018
- TÜRKİYE * After having success in the "IT Speciality Exam", I had a shift in my career. * Under this title, I was in charge of an ecosystem consisting of a dozen of relational database clusters (MS SQL and Postgresql) and around a hundred of application servers on which more than three hundred applications (mostly Java and .NET) are running on production.
Signals Officer
The General Command of Gendarmerie
August 2011 - June 2017
- Misc., TÜRKİYE * The General Command of Gendar merie is one of the law enforcement forces in Türkiye. * After completing the required training and internships between 2009-2011, I was assigned as Signals Officer. * Under this title, I worked in several locations. I was in charge of field communications which include radio systems, VoIP, telephone switches, LAN and MAN management.
IT Operations Department Manager
The General Command of Gendarmerie
December 2023 - Present
- TÜRKİYE * This title consists of a much larger resposibility including all on premise (storage, backup, virtualization, private cloud, central configuration management on clients and servers e.g) and public cloud systems' operation.
Education
Middle East Technical University
Master of Science in Cyber Security
The University of Sheffield
MSc/MA
Turkish Military Academy
Master of Arts in Governance and Public Policy
