Doruk Ozturk
Senior Solutions Architect at Nebius
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoruk Ozturk is a Senior Solutions Architect based in New York with 11 years of experience architecting containerized, high-performance systems and driving cloud modernization across enterprises. He moved from hydrogeological research into geospatial big data and then into cloud-native leadership, blending domain expertise in imagery and pipelines with pragmatic infrastructure design. At AWS he influenced $100M+ in engagements, cut container costs by up to 40% for Fortune 500 customers, trained 3,000+ professionals, and created hardeneks—an open-source EKS security tool widely adopted with ~75K downloads and ~1,000 stars. Doruk excels at turning research-grade algorithms into production-ready, GPU-enabled, containerized services and building reusable reference architectures for GenAI and healthcare. He combines hands-on security engineering, demonstrated by EKS hardening contributions, with a knack for mentoring and scaling operational practices across teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Hydrogeological Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Hydrogeological Engineering at Hacettepe University (Turkey)Master's degree, Hydrology and Water Resources Science, Master's degree, Hydrology and Water Resources Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English, Italian, Turkish
Github Skills (10)
amazon-eks10
guideline10
kubernetes10
security-hardening10
aws10
pytest10
ias10
python10
encryption10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/hardeneks
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Runs checks to see if an EKS cluster follows EKS Best Practices.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:11 releases, 5 reviews, 176 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Doruk primarily contributed to enhancing the security posture of an EKS cluster. They added rules and tests to enforce encryption best practices for EBS and EFS volumes, along with implementing checks related to IAM roles, anonymous access, and service account token mounts. The user's work also included the development of tests for detecting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations within the cluster.
eksrunsk8skuberneteschecks
dorukozturk/hardeneks
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Runs checks to see if an EKS cluster follows EKS Best Practices.
Contributions:107 commits, 17 pushes, 5 tags in 1 month
pythonecrsecurityeksruns
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