Erkan Zileli is an engineering team lead based in Istanbul with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and developer tooling. At Trendyol he progressed from backend engineer to platform lead, shipping Kubernetes-native operators, admission webhooks, an internal developer platform with Backstage, and company-wide service quality and tracing solutions. He combines deep systems programming and architecture skills with practical DevOps expertise—ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Istio, OpenTelemetry and Vault feature prominently in his toolbelt. Known for improving SDLC and developer experience, he also has a track record of creating production middleware, APM tooling and metric collectors that hid complexity from teams. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational needs into robust platform features while keeping an eye on cost and observability.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Bilgisayar Mühendisliği, Bachelor's degree Bilgisayar Mühendisliği at Namık Kemal University
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Erkan Zileli - Engineering Team Lead at Trendyol Group