Koray Oksay
Kubernetes Consultant at thyris.AI
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolKoray Oksay is a Kubernetes consultant and CNCF Ambassador with 12 years of experience helping organizations accelerate their cloud-native journeys from Istanbul. He combines hands-on cluster engineering and SRE leadership—most recently at Kubermatic and previously as Head of SRE at Firefly—with a background in ops, system integration and project management across telecom and gaming industries. Koray also advises at thyris.AI, blending practical Kubernetes delivery with strategic technical guidance for AI-focused products. He has deep operational experience deploying and automating complex services at scale, informed by earlier roles supporting large carriers like Vodafone and ING. A trained project and IT service manager with a mathematical engineering foundation, he pairs rigorous process thinking with a developer-first approach. Colleagues know him for turning messy production problems into repeatable, teachable solutions and for evangelizing best practices as an instructor and ambassador.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Project Management, Master's Degree Project Management at Northeastern UniversityMaster's Degree IT Service Management, Master's Degree IT Service Management at Bahcesehir UniversityBachelor's Degree Mathematical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mathematical Engineering at Yıldız Teknik ÜniversitesiHaydarpaşa Lisesi
Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
listings10
meta10
velero10
terraform10
populate10
gcp10
kubernetes-deployment10
infrastructure10
k8s10
emacs9
kubernetes-setup8
kubelet8
api8
webapp8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloud-agnost/charts
Apr 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:904 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
cloud-agnost/agnost-gitops
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Open source GitOps platform running on Kubernetes clusters
Contributions:51 releases, 6 PRs, 70 pushes in 8 months
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