Buğra Demir

Expert DevOps Engineer · DevOps Quest

    
                
              

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    01 Player Profile

    CLASS: Expert DevOps Engineer LVL 5

    Buğra Demir

    From racks to pods: I turn legacy systems into fast, boring, repeatable pipelines.

    📍 Ankara, Türkiye · ● Open to interesting problems

    DevOps engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience, from racking Linux servers to running Kubernetes in production. I wire CI/CD into projects of every shape (ARM cross-builds included), lead migrations from legacy stacks to container platforms, and keep observability stacks honest. Lately I've also been serving AI workloads: LLM, chat, agent, MCP, gateway and workflow applications. CKA certified.

    CI/CD92
    Kubernetes88
    Linux92
    Observability86
    Migrations85
    Scripting78

    02 Quest Log // experience

    Expert DevOps Engineer

    Feb 2023 — Present
    @ STM · Ankara

    Promoted from DevOps Engineer to Expert DevOps Engineer in Oct 2023.

    • Integrated CI/CD into many projects with Jenkins, GitLab CI and Bamboo, significantly shortening build and deploy times.
    • Led migrations from legacy technologies to modern, containerized platforms on Docker and Kubernetes.
    • Built pipelines for a polyglot codebase (Angular, .NET, C++, C, Python and more), including applications cross-compiled for ARM.
    • Ran artifact and image management on JFrog Artifactory and Harbor.
    • Served AI applications in production: LLM, chat, agent, MCP, gateway and workflow services.
    • Operated Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and MongoDB; monitored everything with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Zabbix and ELK.
    • Worked across Linux and Windows; automated day-to-day work with Bash, Python, PowerShell and REST APIs; used Microsoft Azure.
    • Collaborated daily in the Atlassian toolchain: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Bamboo.
    KubernetesDockerJenkinsGitLab CIBambooJFrogHarborAzureOpenSearchPowerShell

    DevOps Engineer

    Jun 2022 — Feb 2023
    @ Mono Bilişim · Ankara

    DevOps & Cloud team

    • Installed and managed monitoring systems (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki).
    • Managed clustered / high-availability systems and load balancers (HAProxy, Traefik, Kong).
    • Managed AWS infrastructure: EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, ELB, CloudWatch and OpenSearch.
    • Ran CI/CD pipelines and container platforms with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker and Rancher.
    • Automated processes and made them repeatable with Ansible and Bash.
    AWSEKSRancherDockerAnsibleHAProxyPrometheus

    Linux System Administrator

    Dec 2020 — Jun 2022
    @ Mono Bilişim · Ankara

    Systems team

    • Installed, maintained and managed Linux servers (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu).
    • Managed web servers (Nginx, Apache, Caddy, PHP-FPM) and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
    • Ran e-mail systems (Zimbra, Z-Push, Proxmox Mail Gateway) and IP PBX / SIP systems (Asterisk, FreePBX, Issabel).
    • Managed firewalls and Proxmox VE virtualization.
    LinuxNginxMySQLPostgreSQLZimbraAsteriskProxmox

    Engineering Intern

    2017 — 2018
    @ Memorial Healthcare Group · Türk Telekom · Ankara
    • Memorial Healthcare Group — IT Systems team (Jul 2018 — Aug 2018).
    • Türk Telekom — Network System Management (Jul 2017 — Aug 2017).

    03 Inventory // 69 items

    ★ daily drivers (these are the coins in the game) · hover to inspect

    🐳Containers5 items

    ★Kubernetes★Docker★RancherDocker ComposeAmazon EKS

    🔁CI/CD5 items

    ★Jenkins★GitLab CI/CD★BambooBitbucketGit

    📦Artifacts4 items

    ★JFrog Artifactory★Harbor★MinIOAmazon S3

    📈Observability9 items

    ★Prometheus★Grafana★LokiZabbixELK StackInstanaNew RelicCloudWatchWazuh

    ☁️Cloud & Virtualization5 items

    ★AWS★Microsoft Azure★Proxmox VEAmazon EC2Amazon RDS

    🗄️Data & Search7 items

    ★Elasticsearch★OpenSearch★MongoDBPostgreSQLMySQLRedisRabbitMQ

    🚦Traffic & Proxy9 items

    ★Nginx★HAProxy★TraefikKongApacheCaddyProxySQLGobetweenAWS ELB

    🤖Automation5 items

    ★Bash★Python★PowerShellAnsibleREST APIs

    🧠AI Platform Ops6 items

    ★LLM serving★AI gateways★MCP serversAgentsWorkflow enginesChat apps

    🛠️Build Targets4 items

    ★ARM cross-builds★.NET★AngularC++

    🐧Systems6 items

    ★Linux★Windows Server★ZimbraAsterisk / FreePBXProxmox Mail GatewayPHP-FPM

    🧩Collaboration4 items

    ★Jira★Confluence★KanbanBitbucket

    04 Side Quests // projects

    obugrademir.com

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    Cloudflare WorkersCanvasVanilla JS
    UNIVERSITY

    Sesim Ol (Be My Voice)

    Emergency-help system designed first for hearing-impaired people: an Android app sends the user's location and message to a web dashboard used by 112 emergency units.

    C#ASP.NET MVCSQLJavaGoogle Web API
    UNIVERSITY

    Online Bill Tracker

    IoT project: an Arduino built as an electricity meter, calculating the bill in real time, with an Android app to monitor usage and switch power on or off remotely.

    C++ArduinoFirebaseMIT App Inventor
    UNIVERSITY

    3D Printer

    Took an active role in assembling and producing a 3D printer with my team: the main frame and the software that sends models to the printer.

    ArduinoSTL
    UNIVERSITY

    Real-time Object Tracking

    Image-processing project that identifies objects in front of a camera in real time, tracks their coordinates and motion, and estimates their scaled size.

    MATLAB

    05 Training Grounds // education & certs

    CERTIFIEDApr 2026

    📜 Kanban System Design (KMP I)

    Kanban University
    CERTIFIEDOct 2025

    📜 CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator

    CNCF / The Linux Foundation
    CERTIFIEDAug 2022

    📜 MongoDB & Mass Data for Developers and DBAs

    Mustafa Akgül Free Software Camp
    EVENTAug 2022

    🏛️ Mustafa Akgül Free Software Camp

    Participant
    DEGREE2015 — 2019

    🎓 B.Sc. Electrical & Electronics Engineering

    Aksaray University
    • IEEE Student Branch — Board Member (2017 — 2019)
    • IEEE Student Branch — Chair of the Audit Committee (2019)
    EVENTApr 2018

    🏛️ 5th National Management Information Summit

    Student representative
    CERTIFIEDFeb 2017

    📜 Cyber Security & Profiling

    Academic Informatics Conference (AB2017)
    EVENTFeb 2017

    🏛️ 19th Academic Informatics Conference (AB2017)

    Participant

    06 Side Channels // interests

    🐳

    Containers & Kubernetes

    Operators, schedulers, image builds and the whole CNCF zoo. I still enjoy a well-tuned cluster more than I probably should.

    📈

    Monitoring & Observability

    Metrics, logs, dashboards and alerts that actually mean something. If it isn't measured, it's a rumour.

    🧠

    AI tooling

    Agents, MCP and LLM gateways: less hype, more "how do we run this reliably?"

    🔌

    Electronics

    An EE graduate who still gets excited about Arduinos, sensors and 3D printers.

    🐧

    Open source

    Linux was my gateway drug. Free software camps, communities and good docs.

    🚚

    Migrations

    Yes, really. Moving a legacy system to a modern stack without downtime is my kind of puzzle.

    ☕

    Coffee

    Primary runtime dependency. No fallback configured.

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