Berkay Öz is a Software Engineer 2 at Canonical with nine years of hands-on experience in systems programming, DevOps and cloud-native tooling, currently contributing to MicroK8s by hardening snap confinement, automating infrastructure, and improving test reliability. A Mersin University honor graduate with a strong academic grounding in algorithms, OS and AI, he pairs formal training with lifelong self-directed learning and open-source contribution. He excels at quickly mastering new languages and tooling, writing clean, well-tested code, and improving robustness and security in distributed systems. Based in Istanbul, he brings practical experience from startups and large organizations, and a particular knack for turning deployment and permission edge-cases into reliable automation.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Lisans Derecesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği, Lisans Derecesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği at Mersin Üniversitesi / Mersin University
MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:85 reviews, 57 commits, 182 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Berkay primarily contributed to the automation and infrastructure aspects of the MicroK8s project. Their commits focused on integrating strict confinement for the snap package and fixing various issues, like ensuring the correct permissions, with the use of utility scripts. They implemented modifications to upgrade scripts, the addition of checks for the cluster agent and the use of full paths in utility scripts, demonstrating a focus on robustness and security. Additional contributions involved modifying the testing setup for enhanced functionality.
Contributions:12 commits, 21 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 months
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