Kaan Karakaya
Site Reliability Engineer at Booking.com
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKaan Karakaya is a Site Reliability Engineer based in the Netherlands with eight years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems. He has delivered scalable infrastructure across startups and enterprises—from designing microservices and Kubernetes operators to establishing GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines for 20+ clients. At Booking.com he focuses on reliability at scale, and his background includes backend Go development (notably contributing encryption, DB integration and Dockerized deployments to the Passwall server). He pairs systems-level knowledge (custom Linux distros, kernel builds, secure firmware update systems) with developer-centric tooling—having built custom CI/CD operators and multiple developer tools to improve delivery. Kaan combines pragmatic security practices with automation-first operations, and he often brings low-level Kubernetes API work and 12-factor app principles into pragmatic production environments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Karabuk University
Stackoverflow
168reputation
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Github Skills (17)
go10
api10
golang10
crypto9
docker8
passwords8
dockers8
databases7
database7
codeigniter6
oauth6
nodejs6
php6
css6
socket-io6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
passwall/passwall-server
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Passwall Server is the core backend infrastructure for Passwall platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kaan primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure of the Passwall server, focusing on Go-based development. Their work included fixing typos, adding and configuring the Go module, and addressing package path issues. Key contributions involved database integration, API setup, and implementing Docker configurations, which enhanced the server's functionality and deployment. The user also integrated encryption for the passwords.
golangapipasswallinfrastructurepassword-manager
TheYkk/synator
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Synator Kubernetes Secret and ConfigMap synchronizer
Contributions:1 release, 10 reviews, 21 commits in 6 months
synchronizerkubernetes-secretkubernetessecretconfigmap
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