Deniz Zoeteman is an Infrastructure Architect based in Tokyo with 13 years of experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, and backend development, focused on accelerating product delivery and bridging teams. He has led infrastructure design and built a highly automated PaaS with multiple tenancy models, earned internal MVP recognition, and routinely manages cross-team communication and vendor relationships. Deniz brings hands-on reliability engineering experience from mission-critical environments and contributed stability fixes to the prominent kops Kubernetes project, preventing outages during rolling updates and improving shared resource handling. Comfortable moving between strategic architecture and code-level fixes, he combines a pragmatic, cost-aware approach to high-availability systems with a drive to ship under tight deadlines.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MBO, Computer Software Engineering, MBO, Computer Software Engineering at ID College
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 35 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Deniz's contributions primarily focused on improving the stability and reliability of the kops project. They addressed critical issues related to rolling updates, preventing outages by stopping updates if masters or bastions failed. They also made changes to prevent deletion of ElasticIPs for shared NatGateways, improving resource management, and updated documentation.
Kubernetes Operations (kops) - Production Grade K8s Installation, Upgrades, and Management
Contributions:15 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 5 months
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