Cihan Okyay
Head Of Site Reliability Engineering at Yolcu360
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolCihan Okyay is a Head of Site Reliability Engineering with 16 years of experience building and operating resilient web platforms from Istanbul. He leads SRE organizations at Yolcu360 and Bookcars.com, blending hands-on expertise in Python, Django, Linux, PostgreSQL and containerized deployments with team and process leadership. His background spans technical lead and DevOps roles at Metglobal and early-career work building large-scale Django applications and AWS-hosted services, giving him a strong full-stack operational perspective. Cihan has taught Linux and Python, reflecting a knack for mentoring and translating complex infrastructure topics into practical training. He favors pragmatic, automation-first reliability practices—leveraging Celery, RabbitMQ and search technologies in past projects—to keep production systems observable and scalable. Comfortable across code, systems and people, he focuses on turning operational risk into repeatable engineering outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Electronics, Industrial Electronics at Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi
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Github Skills (71)
docker-machine10
python10
docker-registry10
docker-container10
dockerfile10
collections10
docker-image10
docker-api10
docker-compose9
docker-swarm9
docker9
container9
moby8
bulk-update7
puppet6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
electrocoder/djangoistanbul
Sep 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:13 commits in 22 days
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