Efe Karakus
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEfe Karakus is a software engineer with 12 years of experience focused on backend systems, DevOps, and cloud-native tooling, now working on agentic AI at AWS in Seattle. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from UIUC and brings deep experience shipping production tooling for container orchestration and deployment workflows. His open-source contributions to prominent AWS projects like amazon-ecs-cli and copilot-cli include GPU support, integration tests, env var and template improvements, and SDK upgrades that improve reliability and developer experience. Efe combines a thoughtful focus on "what makes good software" with hands-on improvements to infrastructure automation and developer tooling. Colleagues rely on him to bridge the gap between low-level SDK work and higher-level deployment UX, making complex cloud features more accessible. He often surfaces pragmatic, non-obvious fixes—like regenerating mocks and refactoring for readability—that pay dividends in long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
amazon-ecs10
cicd10
aws-sdk10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
aws10
aws-ecs10
testing9
back-end-development9
dockers9
docker9
integration-testing9
automations8
automation8
aws-sqs-fifo8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aws/copilot-cli
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
The AWS Copilot CLI is a tool for developers to build, release and operate production ready containerized applications on AWS App Runner or Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 releases, 3097 reviews, 672 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Efe's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the deployment and management of containerized services within the AWS Copilot CLI. They implemented features to enable the use of environment variables and improved the functionality of deploying services. Additionally, the user modified and improved the template infrastructure by adding features such as the "http.version" field, and improved resource descriptions. They also made changes to support workers such as managing SQS queue by name.
aws-app-runnerecrproduction-readydeveloper-toolsaws-fargate-application
aws/amazon-ecs-cli
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
The Amazon ECS CLI enables users to run their applications on ECS/Fargate using the Docker Compose file format, quickly provision resources, push/pull images in ECR, and monitor running applications on ECS/Fargate.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 69 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Efe upgraded mock dependencies and regenerated mock files related to AWS SDK usage within the project. They also updated the aws-sdk-go library to version 1.18.0, incorporating new features and bug fixes. Additionally, the user made changes to the source code to support GPU instances in the `up` command, along with adding integration tests for the `up` command to validate the cluster creation with the configurations. The user also added the support for listing the running ECS local tasks, refactored code for readability.
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