Hakan Kurtulus
Senior Software Engineer at Contentful
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolHakan Kurtulus is a senior software engineer based in Berlin with over 8 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and platform services. He has deep hands-on expertise designing Kubernetes architectures on AWS (EKS), automating infrastructure with Terraform, and developing cluster management tooling in Go, alongside experience in PHP and Python microservices. At Contentful and prior roles at Acquia and SAP he has driven migrations, CI/CD integration, and test-driven practices, translating operational needs into maintainable code and repeatable deployments. He pairs an electrical and computer engineering background with a practical focus on reliability and observability, and is known for bridging DevOps and software engineering to reduce operational friction.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Óbuda UniversityBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
Turkish, English
Github Skills (196)
controller10
buefy10
aws-s310
k8s10
ssh10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
ssh-agent10
helm10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
1password10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
cd10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
contentful-labs/kube-secret-syncer
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
A Kubernetes operator to sync secrets from AWS Secrets Manager
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 8 PRs in 2 years 5 months
kubebuildersyncsecrets-manageroperatorsecrets
counterapi/docs
Mar 2021 - Oct 2023
Documentation of Counter API
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 6 months
counter
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