Alper Kanat
Platform Engineering Manager
Urla, İzmir, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolAlper Kanat is a Platform Engineering Manager with over two decades immersed in the Linux ecosystem and DevOps, currently leading a team at Midas to deliver highly available, reliable infrastructure. He combines hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Go and Java with a strong background in building analytics and big-data platforms from his time as a solution architect at Commencis and Monitise MEA. Alper has driven multi-datacenter transitions and operational tooling at scale—optimizing cloud deployments, cost structures and developer workflows while earning AWS Solution Architect certifications. Known for mentoring and building self-motivated teams, he also has a long history of presenting on containers and platform practices and contributing to developer tooling projects. Based in Urla, İzmir, he brings a pragmatic engineer-leader mindset that balances architecture, delivery and developer enablement.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
2.4, Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, 2.4, Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at Işık UniversityTerakki Vakfı Özel Şişli Terakki Lisesi
English, German, Turkish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
internal-tools10
svg10
ecosystem10
workflow-automation10
nodejs10
icc10
low-latency10
feign10
png10
assemble10
daemon10
oauth10
wireguard10
webp10
ai-agent10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
tunix/oh-my-zsh
Feb 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:43 pushes in 3 years 3 months
tunix/alacritty-snap
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
A cross-platform, GPU enhanced terminal emulator
Contributions:23 commits, 8 PRs, 23 pushes in 6 months
gputerminal-emulator
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