Alper Uluçınar
Staff Software Engineer at Upbound
Türkiye, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolAlper Uluçınar is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience, blending deep systems research from a PhD background with practical cloud-native engineering at Upbound. He contributes actively to prominent open-source Crossplane projects, driving backend and provider work in Go—most notably improving external name reconciliation and adding AWS managed resources like CloudFront support. Previously a development architect at SAP and a visiting scholar at IBM Research, he brings strong architecture, testing, and API-extension expertise to distributed control planes. Comfortable across research and production, he often focuses on subtle correctness and operability improvements that prevent noisy annotations and simplify credential workflows in multi-account AWS environments.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at Bilkent UniversityHigh School, High School at Ankara Fen LisesiBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Hacettepe UniversityAntalya Anadolu LisesiMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
amazon-cloudfront10
cloud-manager10
controller10
apidoc10
crossplane10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
api10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
control-systems10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
crossplane-contrib/provider-upjet-aws
Jun 2022 - Mar 2023
AWS Provider for Crossplane.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Cloud Engineer
Backend Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:5 releases, 268 reviews, 106 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alper primarily contributed to the AWS provider for Crossplane, focusing on feature parity with the classic AWS provider and adding support for multi-hop role chaining. Their work involved significant modifications to the provider configuration, including the introduction of new credential sources like IRSA and WebIdentity, and renaming existing configuration parameters. They also made updates to example manifests, demonstrating a deep understanding of AWS services and Crossplane's integration with them.
awscrossplane
crossplane-contrib/provider-aws
May 2021 - May 2022
Crossplane AWS Provider
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:1 release, 38 reviews, 16 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alper primarily contributed to the Crossplane AWS Provider, focusing on the implementation and maintenance of cloud infrastructure resources. Their work included adding managed resources for CloudFront, specifically for distributions and cache policies. They also updated dependencies and Go versions, and added tests, indicating an active role in the provider's development lifecycle.
awscrossplane
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