Emre Aydın is a senior software engineer and platform specialist with over a decade of experience building cloud-native systems, distributed platforms, and developer workflows using Go and Java. He combines hands-on engineering—designing workflow engines, integrating Ray, Flink and Pulsar, and automating multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure—with people leadership from his time building and managing cross-functional teams at Hazelcast. At Zapata he reduced cluster provisioning from days to hours via Crossplane improvements and created a Ray-based ML workflow engine that removed Dockerfile burdens for researchers, and he contributes practical fixes to well-known open-source projects like Hazelcast. Now at Canonical he works in commercial systems and continues to focus on platform reliability and Kubernetes automation, while bringing a pragmatic eye for observability, deployment pipelines, and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Bilkent University
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:31 reviews, 53 commits, 132 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Emre primarily focused on improving the Windows batch scripts used for Hazelcast, addressing issues like preventing multiple instances from the same directory and correcting line endings. They also contributed to the Management Center, introducing a new request for promoting lite members and prohibiting shutdown operations via the console. Furthermore, they added client version information to the statistics and made improvements to error reporting in script execution and WAN check consistency.
Contributions:5 releases, 27 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 7 months
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