Alparslan Avci
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Lila Sciences
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlparslan Avci is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems, with a 16-year career building scalable platforms in Golang and Java. He has deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise (EKS, Istio, operators) and has shipped production-grade operators and discovery plugins at Hazelcast and platform tooling for AI/ML at Zapata AI. An active open-source contributor and former Apache Gora PMC member, he has improved build/deployment flows for prominent projects like Hazelcast and helped shape Kratix to simplify internal Kubernetes platforms. He combines hands-on coding—creating Kubernetes operators, microservices and CI/CD automation—with team leadership and platform reliability work across multi-cloud environments. Based in Stevenage, UK, he pairs academic training in distributed systems from KTH with practical experience integrating security, RBAC/OIDC, and developer experience improvements. An observant engineer, he often focuses on the less-visible plumbing that makes cloud-native systems operable and secure in production.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Software Engineering of Distributed Systems, Master of Science Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Fatih University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (25)
hazelcast10
distributed-systems10
java10
distributed-computing10
cicd10
javas10
build-automation10
devops10
ssl9
kubernetes9
dockers9
cloud-infrastructure9
docker9
kubernetes-pods9
scalability9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
hazelcast/hazelcast
Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 61 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alparslan primarily focused on improving the Hazelcast project's build and deployment scripts. Their commits involved refactoring and renaming the start/stop scripts, removing PID management, and updating the scripts for better functionality. Additionally, the user updated the project's build configuration, including adding the hazelcast-azure dependency. Their work also included updating the Azure discovery plugin to include a use-instance-metadata property.
computationstream-processingbigtablereal-timestreaming-data
hazelcast/hazelcast-code-samples
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Hazelcast Code Samples
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alparslan primarily contributed to code samples related to Hazelcast, focusing on its enterprise features and distributed computing capabilities. Their commits involved updating configurations for features like SSL and REST clients, along with dependency and license key updates. Additionally, they modified code samples related to distributed executor and map operations, showing a focus on core Hazelcast functionalities.
javahazelcastin-memoryscalability
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