Ayberk Yılmaz
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAyberk Yılmaz is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native systems and APIs, currently at Stripe in Seattle. He has led teams at Google for the GCE API surface and previously helped architect high-throughput streaming and CSI driver systems at AWS, scaling an EC2 health pipeline to hundreds of millions of messages per second. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and cloud-provider integrations, he has hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, CSI drivers (notably contributions to the aws-ebs-csi-driver adding io2 and Outpost support), distributed streaming, and API usability. Ayberk blends systems-level engineering with product-minded API design, aiming to make cloud APIs friendlier for both machines and humans. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from USC and brings a track record of solving operational pain points as well as shipping new platform capabilities. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who moves complex infrastructure projects forward while keeping developer experience top of mind.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering at Yeditepe University
Turkish, English
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Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
testing10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws-ebs10
amazon-ebs10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
csi10
automations8
automation8
2d6
integer6
overflow6
docker6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/aws-ebs-csi-driver
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
CSI driver for Amazon EBS https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:128 reviews, 9 commits, 27 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ayberk primarily contributed to enhancing the Amazon EBS CSI driver by adding support for io2 volume type and outpost integration. Their work involved modifying code related to volume creation and testing, specifically targeting the controller and cloud functionalities. The changes included updating dependencies, handling outpost ARNs, and adding logging for outpost-related operations, indicating a focus on cloud infrastructure and system compatibility. The contributions aim to improve the driver's capabilities and integrate with AWS features.
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ayberk/aws-ebs-csi-driver
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
CSI driver for Amazon EBS https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
Contributions:66 pushes, 35 branches in 7 months
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