Hüseyin Babal
Lead Cloud Engineer at Namecheap, Inc
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolHüseyin Babal is a Lead Cloud Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native SaaS and large-scale microservice platforms using Kubernetes as the core architecture. He has led DevOps and microservice transformations for enterprises like Sony and eBay and recently drove Botkube’s SaaS platform work with Go, Terraform, and GCP. Comfortable across Java/Spring Boot and Go, he combines hands‑on backend development (including gRPC microservices) with infrastructure design and CI/CD automation. An AWS Certified DevOps Professional, he has practical experience with hybrid and multi-cloud patterns and observability stacks. Hüseyin is an active open-source contributor — notable contributions include upgrades and real-time messaging improvements to the popular Botkube project. Based in Istanbul, he also mentors engineers as an instructor while leading cloud engineering at Namecheap.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Eskisehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
English
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Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
microservices-application10
websocket10
php10
go10
websockets-client10
slack10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
microservices10
websocket-client10
curl10
protobuffer10
client-websocket10
protobuf10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
huseyinbabal/grpc-microservices-in-go
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hüseyin primarily focused on developing and updating gRPC microservices in Go, as evidenced by changes to proto files, and related Go code. They added, updated, and refined code related to proto definitions, generating Go source code stubs, and integrating gRPC functionality in multiple listings throughout the repository. They also made improvements to the build and deployment process, including adding cleanup steps.
kubeshop/botkube
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
An app that helps you monitor your Kubernetes cluster, debug critical deployments & gives recommendations for standard practices
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 316 reviews, 20 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hüseyin primarily contributed to upgrading the project's Go version and addressing associated linting suggestions. They also added support for Mattermost v7.0, enhancing communication capabilities. Furthermore, the user refactored the Slack communication implementation from RTM to WebSocket, optimizing real-time messaging. In addition, the user introduced background compatibility for Socket Mode.
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