Erkan Erol
Staff Software Engineer at QA Wolf
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolErkan Erol is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in building and operating Kubernetes-based platforms over the past 7 years. He has driven end-to-end Kubernetes-as-a-service initiatives across multi-provider and hybrid-cloud environments, designing operators, Helm charts, CLIs and integrating many CNCF projects to production at companies like Giant Swarm and Red Hat. His background spans cloud-native lifecycle automation, CI/CD, observability and customer-facing operational support, with hands-on experience on OpenStack, vSphere, Azure and managed Kubernetes offerings. Comfortable in on-call rotations and technical customer support, he also moves teams from script-based ops to Kubernetes-native workflows. Based in Istanbul, he blends practical platform engineering with upstream open-source contributions, bringing both system-design breadth and boots-on-the-ground delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Atatürk High School of Science, IstanbulBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
Turkish, English
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Github contributions (5)
giantswarm/cluster-api-cleaner-openstack
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
This repo is currently UNMAINTAINED. If you want to work on it, please fork. An helper operator for CAPO to delete resources by workload clusters
Contributions:5 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 6 months
clusterskubernetesoperatorworkload
giantswarm/cluster-api-provider-cloud-director
Sep 2022 - Apr 2024
Cluster API Provider for VMware Cloud Director. The project is an open source implementation of K8s ClusterAPI project and allows customers to provision resources directly from VMware Cloud Director. It enables Cloud Director powered Clouds to be treated as yet-another-cloud in the multi-cloud journey for VMware Cloud Providers.
Contributions:5 reviews, 14 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 6 months
vmware-cloudprovider-apidirectorcloud-providersprovision-resources
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