Boran Şeref
Senior Software Security Engineer at Red Hat
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolBoran Şeref is a Senior Software Security Engineer based in Prague with 9 years of experience designing and hardening large-scale cloud-native systems. He blends SRE discipline, CI/CD automation and vulnerability triage to secure supply chains and maintain compliance (SOC 2, ISO, PCI) at Red Hat. Previously he helped run high-throughput production search services and led Hepsiburada’s first Kubernetes production rollout, proving expertise in resilience, chaos engineering and observability. An active open-source back-end contributor, he has enhanced the widely used Open Policy Agent ecosystem by adding functionality and hardening test behavior. Comfortable across Linux kernel-adjacent tooling, distributed systems and secure DevOps, he repeatedly turns manual toil into automated, auditable processes. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic security automation that scales from containers to enterprise compliance evidence.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bornova Anadolu Lisesi (İzmir Koleji)Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Ege Üniversitesi
Turkish, English, Czech
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
authorizations10
testing10
policies10
open-policy-agent10
go10
rego10
authorization10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
hcl9
regular-expression9
terraformer8
yaml8
configuration-management8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-policy-agent/conftest
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Write tests against structured configuration data using the Open Policy Agent Rego query language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:107 reviews, 71 commits, 126 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Boran contributed to the `conftest` project by adding new features and improving the codebase. The user implemented a "trace-query" flag for Rego queries, enhancing debugging capabilities. Furthermore, the user updated the project's dependencies, including the Open Policy Agent, and added support for new configuration file formats such as CUE and INI. The user also focused on improving the testability of the codebase by refactoring existing components.
policyqueryagentstructuredtesting
open-policy-agent/opa
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 2 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Boran contributed to the core functionality of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. They implemented a new `regex.replace` built-in function and fixed an issue related to strict checks of unused variables within the policy engine. Additionally, the user addressed a bug in the test command related to updating storage when data files are removed. Their work demonstrates a focus on expanding OPA's capabilities and improving its robustness.
policycompliancedogepoliciescloud-native
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