Levent Ogut
Clouds.Engineer

Levent Ogut

Cloud Native Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Developer
System Engineer
Network Engineer
Security Engineer

About Me

First of all I am a problem solver, I love to tinker, research, learn, and optimize. I don't like repeating myself so I am fond of automation which also reduces mistakes. My main focus area is container orchestration, I am focused on Kubernetes and it's ecosystem to provide scalable, high available, observable, and secure infrastructures. In this path I have worked with many public cloud service providers, and used many different tools.

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Resume - Skills

Skill/Experience Levels Definition

Level 1

Brief knowledge on the topic. Have knowledge of where the tool can be used.

Level 2

Implemented basic functions in staging or lab environment.

Level 3

Research, design and implementation of the topic in small featureset, used in a few project and deployed in production.

Skill/Experience Levels Definition

Level 4

Have skills/experience for design, develop, implement, deploy, most of the features.

Level 5

Have skills/experience for design, develop, implement, deploy, most of the features. Used regularly.

Soft Skills

Collabration and knowledge transfer

Willingness to help

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Soft Skills

Technical writing (Articles and blog posts)

Blog

Time Management

Creative Thinking

Problem Solving

Cloud Native Engineering Skills

Containers

Knowledge and experience of building, optimizing, securing containers and containerization of applications

Kubernetes

Experience with Kubernetes clusters in production environment.

Nomad

Kubernetes and Tooling Skills

Ingress object

Kubernetes

Nomad

Public Cloud Provider Experience

Google Cloud

AWS

Azure

Digital Ocean

Linode

OVH

Coding Skills

Fundemantals of programming

Software Engineering (writing languages, compilers...)

TDD - Test-driven Development

Agile Software Development

Git

Go

Python

PHP

Shell scripting

Infrastructure as a Code Experience

Fundemantals of IaC

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

Puppet

Salt

CI/CD Experience

Fundemantals of CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Google Cloud Build

AWS CodeBuild

Argo CD

Flux CD

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CNCF Landscape
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Resume - Work Experience

Experience

Cloud Native Engineer

Oct 2014 - Present Clouds.Engineer Freelance

As a freelance DevOps engineer, I have been filling various roles and involved in numerous projects. From design/installation and operation of scaled infrastructures to managing and monitoring systems. Developing CI/CD pipelines and improving them.

Developer Advocate

Jan 2021 - Mar 2022 Loft.sh Labs Inc. Freelance

Kubernetes and its ecosystem focused content creation & Developer relations.

DevOps Engineer

Oct 2014 - Jan 2021 Sendloop Contract

Backend development, microservices developemnt in Go,DevOps, infrastructure design, and deployment.

Professional Services Consultant

Feb 2011 - Feb 2014 Juniper Networks Full-time

Professional Services is one of the top tier consultancy teams regarding internet networking. As a consultant on next generation networking technologies and Juniper Networks products in EMEA region I had assignments from short as a week to months on customer sites or remote, providing deep technological know how to customer on operation. The role entailed consultancy for very large customers on design, implementation and operations. Also another aspect of the role was consulting on how to test Juniper products / JUNOS for conformance, verification of bug fixes and bringing products into production.

Experience

Juniper Network Engineer

Feb 2009 - Feb 2011 Nokia Siemens Networks Contract

Operation, support and design guidance to one of the bigest broadcasters in U.K.

Juniper Network Engineer

Nov 2008 - Feb 2009 Telstra International Contract

Network Design Consultant

Nov 2008 - Feb 2009 UPC / Liberty Media Contract

Network Designer

Oct 2007 - May 2008 Cable & Wireless Contract

ISP Integration Architect

Apr 2007 - Oct 2007 Phorm Inc Contract

IP Network Development Engineer

Apr 2007 - Oct 2007 Easynet UK Ltd / BSKYB Ltd Full-time

Senior Network Engineer & Team Leader

Mar 2003 - Sep 2004 DorukNet Full-time

Senior Network Engineer

Sep 2002 - Mar 2003 OytelNet Full-time

Network Engineer

Mar 2001 - Sep 2002 Bimel LTD Full-time

Developer (PHP & Perl)

Jan 2000 - Mar 2001 Octeth technologies Full-time

IT Support

Jun 1998 - Jan 2000 Iletisim Yayincilik Part-time