Aykut Bulgu
Career Coach & Mentor at Red Hat
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolAykut Bulgu is a principal software engineer and career coach based in Istanbul with over a decade of experience designing cloud-native middleware and microservices using Kafka, Ansible, Quarkus, Knative, Python, and Go. At Red Hat he blends hands-on engineering—most recently on OpenShift bare metal and Kafka-related platforms—with technical content creation, training, and fact-checking for developer audiences. He has a strong consulting background modernizing enterprise systems across finance, telecom and government, and has contributed DevOps and integration work to notable open-source projects such as Apache Camel/Spring Boot with Kafka/Strimzi examples. As a CNCF Ambassador and Confluent Kafka Community Catalyst, he pairs community leadership (co-organizing Software Craftsmanship Turkey) with practical delivery experience. Beyond code, he runs an NLP-powered coaching practice helping engineers navigate career decisions in the age of AI, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and people-focused mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Kadıköy Anadolu LisesiMaster of Science (MSc) Management Information Systems, Master of Science (MSc) Management Information Systems at Meždunarodnij Kazahsko-Tureckij Universitet im. H.A. YeseviBachelor of Science Mathematics Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mathematics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (24)
camelcase10
integrate10
kafka10
apache-camel10
integrations10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
microservices-application9
devops9
microservices9
kubernetes-pods8
bash8
kubernetes8
yaml7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/camel-spring-boot
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Runs Camel on Spring Boot and provides starters for Camel components
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Aykut contributed to the development of a Camel application utilizing Spring Boot and Kafka for integration. The commits include the addition of a new example for Strimzi, demonstrating Kafka integration with security configurations. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build process and scripts for preparing the truststore, enhancing the deployment and configuration aspects of the application. The changes also include modifications to documentation and configuration files, fixing some issues related to camel properties.
spring-bootintegrationapache-camelapachespring
mabulgu/django-scaffold
Jul 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 9 months
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