Ali Polatel
Senior Platform Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Polatel is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Berlin with 17 years of experience building and hardening infrastructure for marketing and advertising systems, open-source Linux projects, and startups. He blends low-level systems expertise in C, Rust and Haskell with practical platform work in Ruby and DevOps, contributing notable improvements to the Rex automation framework and maintaining Exherbo’s SydBox sandbox for secure process isolation. A practiced translator and chess trainer, he co-founded Chess without Boundaries and has translated and taught advanced chess material, revealing a rare mix of technical precision and linguistic/educational craft. His background in language interpretation (MA) complements a security-minded engineering approach—he often focuses on sandboxing, secure programming, and reproducible package management across Gentoo-related ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Language Interpretation and Translation, Master of Arts - MA, Language Interpretation and Translation at Istanbul UniversityIstanbul Erkek LisesiPhysics Engineering, Physics Engineering at Istanbul Technical UniversityBachelor's degree, Language Interpretation and Translation, Bachelor's degree, Language Interpretation and Translation at Trakya University
English, Turkish, German
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Github Skills (12)
rex10
libvirt10
infrastructure-as-code10
gentoo10
configuration-management10
automation10
automations10
devops10
perl9
kvm9
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RexOps/Rex
Dec 2016 - Mar 2018
Rex, the friendly automation framework
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to improving the Rex automation framework, specifically focusing on Gentoo package management and system service handling. Their contributions include enhancing package installation logic to handle USE flags and slots, fixing service class definitions for Gentoo and non-systemd environments, and addressing partition-related issues. The user also enhanced the libvirt integration by improving VM management and providing support to select CPU modes for KVM guests.
infrastructure-automationrexdevopsframeworkautomation
alip/luachess
Dec 2008 - Aug 2009
Contributions:113 commits in 8 months
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