Derya Sezen
Consultant at kloia
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDerya Sezen is a seasoned DevOps and platform engineering consultant with 11+ years of experience modernizing enterprise systems and driving cloud adoption, currently based in London. He has led large-scale AWS migrations and cloud-native transformations that replaced monoliths with decoupled, scalable platforms and cut deployment cycles from weeks to hours. As a former CTO and IT director, he blends technical depth—infrastructure, Docker/Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins—with leadership in agile and platform-driven delivery. He champions Internal Developer Platforms, platform pipelines and platform unit testing to turn infrastructure into self-service developer tooling. Known as an AWS Ambassador and evangelist, he focuses on automation and waste reduction across on-prem and cloud environments. His background in embedded systems and kernel tweaks early in his career signals a hands-on curiosity that informs pragmatic, low-level optimizations even at enterprise scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, System&Control Engineering / Computer Engineering Department, High Honor Degree, Master of Science - MS, System&Control Engineering / Computer Engineering Department, High Honor Degree at Bogazici UniversityHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Galatasaray ÜniversitesiAssociate of Science (A.S.), Associate of Science (A.S.) at T.E.D. Karabük College
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Turkish
Github Skills (90)
terraform10
adaptation10
cqrs10
ecosystem10
golang10
container10
dispatcher10
graph10
go10
curve10
docker10
moby10
aws10
minimum10
assemble10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
devops-turkey/devopsdays
May 2016 - Jun 2021
DevOpsDays Istanbul Web Site Content
Contributions:197 commits, 161 PRs, 208 pushes in 5 years 1 month
devopsdaysweb-sitedevops
kloia/techradar
May 2020 - Jan 2021
kloia techradar base repository
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 7 months
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