Summary
Ethem Özkan is a seasoned DevOps & Automation Engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure, and a strong background in CI/CD, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code. He has led cloud migrations, built landing zones and shared VPCs, and implemented organization-wide automation with tools like Terraform, Ansible and CloudFormation while improving security and observability at scale. His career began in infrastructure development and software configuration management, giving him deep expertise in release engineering and CMMI-driven processes that few cloud engineers retain. Based in the Netherlands, he blends academic rigor from PhD-level computer engineering studies with a pragmatic, results-focused approach and a preference for clear team communication. Colleagues know him as a cheerful, hands-on problem solver who routinely translates legacy systems into containerized, testable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering at TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering at Hacettepe University
English