Curriculum vitae
Fethi Ozdol
AWS Solutions Architect
Profile
- Name
- Fethi Ozdol
- Role
- AWS Solutions Architect
- Location
- London, UK
- Website
- https://thisismypattern.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfethio/
- GitHub
- https://github.com/fethiozdol
- Nationality
- British
- Summary
- AWS Solutions Architect with 16+ years in software engineering, DevOps and cloud architecture, delivering on AWS since 2015. Designs and builds serverless and container platforms end to end, from architecture and infrastructure-as-code to backend code and CI/CD, and leads multi-geographic engineering teams. Currently architecting BBC Studios' new global digital media supply chain on AWS.
Experience
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AWS Solutions Architect (contract via eCreation Media)
BBC Studios' new global digital media supply chain in AWS cloud.
- Cloud architecture design of the fulfilment system for BBC Studios' new global digital media supply chain, using the AWS serverless stack
- System integration, software delivery lifecycle, security and observability for the work order management system
- Leading a multi-geographic development team of 4
Aug 2025 – Present London, UK
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Co-Founder
Startup building responsible AI and software that respects user privacy.
- Cloud architecture, infrastructure-as-code and backend development on the AWS serverless stack
- teshub.app: analytics app for Tesla owners with an in-app AI agent, launched late 2025; 100+ downloads, 30+ active users (API Gateway, Lambda, TypeScript, DynamoDB, Kinesis, Timestream, ECS Fargate, Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Bedrock Guardrails, S3 Vectors)
- Teshub AI agent: Claude Sonnet RAG over manufacturers' manuals, filtered by make, model and language metadata; Guardrails and a tested system prompt against misuse, DynamoDB rate limiting (20 questions per 4 hours) for cost control
- tabtasker.com: privacy-first everyday tools; building Tabtasker Business (Aurora PostgreSQL, Cloudflare Workers)
- Member of AWS Activate, Microsoft for Startups and NVIDIA Inception programmes
Jan 2025 – Present London, UK
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AWS Solutions Architect (contract via Stellarmann)
Convex is an international specialty insurer and reinsurer.
- Cloud architecture and software solutions design for new features and performance improvements on the company's annual forecasting application
- Completed "Introduction to Insurance and the London Market" training (Linda Prewett FCII, Chartered Insurer)
Oct 2024 – Dec 2024 London, UK
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Director
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 RPA Farm from scratch: fully serverless RPA-as-a-Service on AWS with pay-per-use billing at 1 ms granularity, running 24/7 for 3 UK insurance companies
- Built Document Analysis Service from scratch: serverless text extraction SaaS with Amazon Textract / Google Cloud DocumentAI integration, running 24/7 for a non-UK small business
- As Chief Architect, designed the cloud architecture, built delivery lifecycle and DevOps processes, and wrote backend code in Node.js and Python (Terraform, Azure DevOps, SonarCloud, checkov.io)
Feb 2024 – Mar 2026 London, UK
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AWS Solutions Architect (contract via DGH)
eCreation Media provides software solutions to top UK media industry companies. I worked with multiple clients as an AWS Architect to deliver media software in AWS cloud.
- Multi-award winning British broadcaster: modernised the media broadcasting platform with the AWS serverless stack, integrating vendor broadcasting software with other AWS systems
- UK media data communication and transmission provider: supervised feature development and designed cloud architecture for a linear and non-linear content interchange platform on AWS Elemental MediaConnect, MediaLive and MediaPackage
Jan 2024 – Oct 2024 London, UK
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AWS Solutions Architect
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.
- Chief Architect on AWS and Azure consultancy projects, including a serverless invoice-extraction service (Textract, Lambda, DynamoDB, Terraform Cloud, Azure DevOps) and a cloud strategy and architecture redesign for a global sports betting app launch
- Built the company's device management, security and compliance system with Azure AD, Intune, Defender and O365
Jun 2022 – Dec 2023 London, UK
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Tech Arch Delivery Associate Manager
AWS Solutions Architect in the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) UK & Ireland.
- Global retail banking and financial services company, DevOps Lead: one-click delivery of a multi-region Amazon Connect contact centre with Terraform and GitHub Actions; working proof of concept in 1 week
- UK Top-5 retail group, Solutions Architect & DevOps Lead: migrated 5 applications from on-premises to AWS (CloudEndure, EC2 Image Builder, CloudFormation)
- Public Health, Platform Engineering Lead: managed a cloud engineering team of 5, coordinated tens of releases and ran 24/7 support for supplying COVID-19 tests to care homes (EKS, Terraform, Terragrunt, cdktf)
- Public Health, Solutions Architect & DevOps Lead: cloud-native COVID-19 rapid test finder; first release in 8 days, live at national scale in 3 weeks
Dec 2020 – Jun 2022 London, UK
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Advanced Application Engineering Specialist
DevOps Team Lead (2015-2019), then Team Lead & Cloud Architect in AABG (2019-2020).
- Internal Shared Services, Lead Technical Architect: moved a 100+ client platform from Docker Swarm to AWS EKS (600+ pods, 3 clusters); +50% developer productivity, -30% time to market, -50% operational costs, 99.999% availability at $3k/month; led a team of 12 across 3 geographies
- Large multinational investment company, DevOps Team Lead: reusable, cloud-agnostic Micro Focus solution provisioning all environments and CD pipelines in under a day; -40% infrastructure costs, -50% operational costs
- Accenture Post-Trade Processing, DevOps Team Lead: technology delivery and BAU support for multiple global financial services companies (Chef, Jenkins, RDS)
Sep 2015 – Nov 2020 London, UK
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Development Architecture Specialist
Responsible for development standards, environments, and tooling for millions of lines of code in Java, C#, COBOL, PL/I.
Jan 2014 – Aug 2015 Istanbul, Türkiye
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Software Engineer, then Senior Software Engineer (2011)
Full stack developer for CRM, Sales, and Marketing modules for 6 million active retail and commercial banking customers.
Nov 2009 – Mar 2013 Istanbul, Türkiye
Education
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Sabanci University, Türkiye
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering
Sep 2004 – Feb 2009 Istanbul, Türkiye
Projects
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Tabtasker Business | Vehicularis
Privacy-first everyday tools. Currently building Tabtasker Business.
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
- Cloudflare Workers
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Teshub.app | Vehicularis
Analytics app for Tesla vehicle owners with an in-app AI agent. Launched in late 2025, downloaded by 100+ users with 30+ active users. The AI agent uses Claude Sonnet RAG over manufacturers' manuals, filtered by make, model and language metadata, with Bedrock Guardrails, a tested system prompt against misuse, and DynamoDB rate limiting (20 questions per 4 hours) for cost control.
- Amazon API Gateway
- Lambda
- TypeScript
- Amazon SQS
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Timestream for InfluxDB
- Amazon ECS Fargate
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon Bedrock
- Bedrock Knowledge Bases
- Bedrock Guardrails
- Amazon S3 Vectors
- Claude Sonnet
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Media Broadcasting Platform | eCreation Media
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
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
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Media Content Interchange Platform | eCreation Media
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
Jan 2024 – May 2024
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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
Feb 2024 – Mar 2026
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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
Feb 2024 – Mar 2026
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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
Jan 2022 – May 2022
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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
Oct 2021 – Jan 2022
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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
Jun 2021 – Oct 2021
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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
Nov 2020 – May 2021
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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
Jan 2018 – Nov 2020
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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
Jan 2018 – Nov 2020
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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
Sep 2015 – Dec 2017
Certificates
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
May 2022
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services Training and Certification
Aug 2021
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ITIL (v3) Foundation
AXELOS Global Best Practice
Jan 2015
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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (previously held)
Google Cloud
Publications
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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®.
Oct 2009
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Görsel Veri Madenciliği'nde bir Vaka Çalışması: ÖSS Verilerinin Analizi
YA/EM 2005, Istanbul
Ertek, G., Ozdol, F., & Degirmencioglu, B. (2005).
Jan 2005
Skills
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AWS
- Lambda
- EC2
- EKS
- ECS
- Fargate
- VPC
- CloudFront
- API Gateway
- AppSync
- Cognito
- SQS
- SNS
- SES
- EventBridge
- CloudWatch
- Kinesis
- Glue
- QuickSight
- Textract
- Amazon Connect
- MediaConnect
- MediaLive
- MediaPackage
- MediaStore
- Amazon Lex
- Bedrock
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DevOps
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- cdktf
- AWS CDK
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CodeBuild
- AWS CodePipeline
- Azure DevOps
- Bitbucket
- GitHub
- Ansible
- Chef
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
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Database
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon RDS
- ElastiCache
- Amazon Timestream
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- Microsoft SQL Server
- IBM DB2
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AI-Assisted Engineering
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- OpenAI models
- Qwen models
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Programming
- Node.js
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Python
- Golang
- COBOL
- PL/I
- Java
- Unix Shell
- PowerShell
Languages
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Turkish
Native
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English
Fluent
Interests
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Music
- Classical guitar
Awards
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Most Innovative Team in UK
Accenture Global V360 Awards
Most Innovative Team in UK to participate at Accenture's Global V360 Awards (2020).
Jan 2020