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AWS Solutions Architect @ Xecuta

Xecuta aims to provide Software as a Service offerings for small-medium business' affordability. I act as the Chief Architect in the company during my off-contract working hours and I lead the company's SaaS products development.

• Built a SaaS called 'RPA Farm' from scratch in AWS Cloud. The service provides 24/7 service for 3 UK insurance companies.
• Built a SaaS called 'Document Analysis Service' from scratch in AWS Cloud. The service provides 24/7 service for 1 non-UK small business.

AWS Solutions Architect @ eCreation Media Technology

eCreation Media provides software solutions to top UK media industry companies. Whilst at eCreation, I have worked with multiple clients as an AWS Architect to deliver media software in AWS cloud.

• Multi-award winning British broadcasting company: Modernising their media broadcasting platform by using AWS serverless stack to integrate their vendor provided media broadcasting software with other systems in AWS cloud.
• UK top media data communication and transmission provider: Supervising new feature development on their linear and non-linear content interchange platform, which uses AWS Elemental Services including MediaConnect, MediaLive, and MediaPackage.

AWS Solutions Architect @ Synapx

Chief Architect in the company's IT consultancy projects in AWS and Azure. I also took up short outside IR35 contract roles through Synapx Ltd.

• Built the company's device management, security and compliance system using Microsoft Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft O365
• Google Chrome Browser Management using Google Workspace and Cloud Identity
• Defined company standards and naming conventions for the company's tech inventory and environment management.

Tech Arch Delivery Associate Manager @ Accenture

AWS Solutions Architect and Cloud Engineer in Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) UK and Ireland.

• Became AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Became AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Most Innovative Team in UK to participate at Accenture's Global V360 Awards 2020

Advanced Application Engineering Specialist @ Accenture

Team Lead in DevOps UK and Ireland group.

• Became Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
• Obtained Technology Architect Associate in Accenture MTA programme

Development Architecture Specialist @ Garanti BBVA Teknoloji

Responsible for development standards, environments, and tooling for millions of lines of code in Java, C#, COBOL, PL/I.

Senior Software Engineer @ Garanti BBVA Teknoloji

Full stack developer for CRM, Sales, and Marketing modules for 6 million active retail and commercial banking customers.

Sabanci University, Türkiye

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering

Media Broadcasting Platform | eCreation Media Technology

Modernising a client's media broadcasting platform using AWS Serverless stack and vendor provided media broadcasting software.

Amazon API Gateway  Lambda  TypeScript  Amazon SQS  Amazon S3  Amazon EventBridge  Bitbucket 

Media Content Interchange Platform | eCreation Media Technology

Supervising new feature development and providing cloud architecture design for the client's linear and non-linear content interchange platform.

Amazon CloudFront  Amazon API Gateway  Lambda  Python  Amazon EventBridge  Amazon SQS  Amazon S3  GitHub Actions  Terraform  MediaConnect  MediaLive  MediaPackage  MediaStore 

RPA Farm | Xecuta

RPA Farm is a software as a service (SaaS) that provides Robotic Process Automation (RPA) as a service (RPAaaS) with pay-per-use pricing model at 1 millisecond granularity. The service is built as fully serverless on AWS cloud and can execute Robot Framework scripts that can be self-managed or Xecuta-managed. It provides APIs for single or multiple task execution on demand. As Chief Architect, I designed and implemented its cloud architecture, built its delivery lifecycle and DevOps processes, and wrote backend code in Node.js and Python.

Amazon CloudFront  Amazon API Gateway  Lambda  TypeScript  Node.js  Python  Amazon DynamoDB  Amazon SQS  Amazon EventBridge  Amazon Cognito  Amazon CloudWatch  Terraform  Azure DevOps  SonarCloud  checkov.io 

Document Analysis Service | Xecuta

Document Analysis Service is a software as a service (SaaS) that can extract text from documents and images. Unlike its counterparts, it aims to be the most cost-effective service on the market thanks to its pay-per-use pricing model at 1 page granularity. The service is built as fully serverless on AWS cloud and it can integrate with Amazon Textract or Google Cloud DocumentAI for complex use cases that require Machine Learning or Generative AI. It provides APIs for single or multiple page processing on demand. As Chief Architect, I designed and implemented its cloud architecture, built its delivery lifecycle and DevOps processes, and wrote backend code in Node.js and Python.

Amazon Textract  Google Cloud DocumentAI 

Public Health | Accenture

As Platform Engineering Lead, managed a cloud engineering team of 5 and coordinated 10s of releases and provided 24/7 BAU support for supplying COVID-19 tests to care homes.

Amazon EC2  AWS EKS  Amazon CloudFront  Amazon API Gateway  Lambda  TypeScript  Amazon DynamoDB  Amazon SQS  Amazon Cognito  Amazon CloudWatch  Docker  Kubernetes  Terraform  Azure DevOps  Terragrunt  cdktf  SonarQube  checkov.io 

Global retail banking and financial services company | Accenture

As DevOps Lead, Designed software delivery lifecycle processes, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines for one-click delivery of a multi-region application architecture to migrate their contact centre to AWS.

Amazon Connect  Amazon Lex  Lambda  Node.js  Amazon DynamoDB  Amazon SQS  Amazon SNS  Amazon CloudWatch  Terraform  GitHub  GitHub Actions 

UK Top-5 retail group | Accenture

As Solutions Architect & DevOps Lead, cloud migration of 5 applications from on-premises data centre to AWS.

Amazon EC2  Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL  Cloud Endure  GitHub  Jenkins  AWS CloudFormation  AWS EC2 Image Builder 

Public Health | Accenture

As Solutions Architect & DevOps Lead, helped to save lives with a new COVID-19 rapid test finder map solution for the public. The solution has a state-of-art cloud native architecture with CI-CD pipelines fully implemented in AWS. First release in just 8 days and went live at a national scale in just 3 weeks.

Amazon CloudFront  Amazon API Gateway  AWS Lambda  Node.js  Python  Amazon DynamoDB  Amazon SQS  Amazon EventBridge  Amazon Cognito  AWS CloudFormation  Amazon CloudWatch  AWS CodeCommit  AWS CodeBuild  AWS CodePipeline 

Internal shared services | Accenture

As Lead Technical Architect, increased developer productivity by 50%, reduced time to market by 30% and reduced operational costs by 50%. Rearchitected the cloud architecture, upgraded the runtime environment from Docker Swarm to AWS EKS. 10s of containerised Java microservices, 600+ pods across 3 clusters. The solution served 100+ clients in many industries at 99.999% availability with all infrastructure and licensing costs at only $3k per month. Led the development team of 12 across 3 geographies, oversaw and guided their transformation into a multidisciplinary Agile team.

Amazon EC2  AWS EKS  DynamoDB  Aurora Serverless  ElastiCache  Application Load Balancer  Ambassador API Gateway  NGINX Ingress Controller  oauth2-proxy  FluentBit  AWS CloudFormation  Bitbucket  Jenkins  Docker  Packer  Prometheus  Grafana  SonarQube  Azure Active Directory  Cucumber  Selenium  Locust 

Large multinational investment company | Accenture

As DevOps Team Lead, reduced infrastructure costs by 40% and cut operational costs by 50% with a reusable and cloud agnostic solution for Micro Focus tools, which makes it possible to provision all environments and CD pipelines in less than a day.

Micro Focus Enterprise Server on Amazon EC2  IBM DB2 on Amazon EC2  Ansible  Jenkins  SonarQube  ElasticSearch 

Accenture Post-Trade Processing (APTP) | Accenture

As DevOps Team Lead, technology delivery and BAU support for multiple global financial services companies.

Java  Amazon EC2  Amazon RDS for Oracle  Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server  Chef  Jenkins  Nagios 

The Reflexive Campus: A Study of Dynamic Architecture in a Virtual World

IEEE

This paper describes the creative as well as computational processes involved in the creation of a generative, emergent architectural construct destined to become the virtual campus of a real life university on a dedicated island in Second Life®.