Summary
Kadir Tugan is a Production Engineer based in the Berlin area with 14 years of experience building reliable, secure, and data-driven systems at scale. He has led SRE and production engineering efforts at Facebook and Careem, where he drove major reliability improvements, built a MySQL fronting proxy capable of processing over a million queries per second, and co-led Kubernetes platform work across the company. His background blends machine learning and security—he has applied ML to sales targeting and incident response—and he’s repeatedly turned monoliths into resilient microservices with minimal downtime. Known for rapid incident mitigation at the ring0 level and pragmatic automation of CI/CD and AuthN/Z, he combines hands-on engineering with cross-team leadership to reduce risk and operational costs.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin