Summary
Isa Inalcik is a Senior Technical Lead Engineer with 10+ years of experience building cloud-native, compliant data platforms across banking, insurance, pharma, and e-commerce. He combines hands-on expertise in Databricks, Trino/Starburst, Apache Iceberg, Spark, Kafka, dbt and Airflow with a strong DevOps mindset (Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, CI/CD) to deliver scalable lakehouse architectures and automated pipelines. At BestSecret he led migrations off legacy systems, introduced governance via Azure AD/SCIM and built productivity tools like SQL translation and Iceberg maintenance apps, and now drives lakehouse and governance at Allianz Partners. Certified as an Azure Data Engineer and Starburst Practitioner, he is also an active open-source contributor (Trino, PyIceberg, Trino-Gateway), which reflects a pragmatic focus on interoperability and sustainable platform reliability.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Bolu Ticaret Meslek Lisesi
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Betriebswirtschaft / Business Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Betriebswirtschaft / Business Studies at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences
Fachhochschulreife Wirtschaft und Verwaltung, Fachhochschulreife Wirtschaft und Verwaltung at Paul-Julius-Reuter- Berufskolleg
Abroad semester Business Studies, Abroad semester Business Studies at Missouri State University
German, English, Turkish