Ahmet Türkmen
Systems Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmet Türkmen is a Systems Development Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and backend systems across cloud and embedded domains. Currently at AWS and pursuing a master's at Technical University of Munich, he combines production-grade systems work with research-led evaluation of virtualization and container runtimes for safety-critical environments. His background spans CI/CD transformation, Ansible-driven cluster management, and refactoring legacy code into scalable microservices, with hands-on proficiency in Go, Python, Kubernetes, and observability stacks. Notable open-source contributions include backend development for Passwall Server—implementing password generation, encryption, health checks and tests—that strengthened system reliability. Based in Berlin, he blogs about engineering and bridges academia and industry, applying performance tooling like perf and strace to deliver predictable, certifiable systems. Colleagues know him for turning complex validation requirements into automated, auditable pipelines that scale.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Abdullah Gül UniversityMaster's degree Informatics, Master's degree Informatics at Technical University of Munich
Turkish, English, German
Github Skills (11)
crypto10
golang10
go10
passwords10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
backup8
encryption8
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
passwall/passwall-server
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Passwall Server is the core backend infrastructure for Passwall platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ahmet primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure of the Passwall server. Their work involved implementing password-related functionalities, including generation, encryption, and integration within the application. They also introduced health check endpoints and added unit tests for backup and encryption features, which helped improve overall system reliability and functionality. Furthermore, the user refactored code, including renaming and deleting deprecated components.
golangapipasswallinfrastructurepassword-manager
mrtrkmn/TUM-cloud-computing
May 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:29 commits, 1 push in 5 months
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