Mert Senel
Principal Platform Engineer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMert Senel is a Principal Platform Engineer based in Melbourne with eight years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms, SRE practices, and DevOps tooling at scale. He has led platform initiatives for high-traffic ANZ e-commerce systems at Bunnings, architecting multi-geo AKS-based clusters, private hub-and-spoke networks, and repeatable IaC pipelines with Terraform and Azure DevOps. Grounded in a software engineering education and a Master’s in Network Systems, he pairs deep networking and systems experience with a platform-engineering mindset that empowers teams to self-serve while maintaining security and reliability. Comfortable across PaaS and containerized workloads, he’s delivered migrations from VM to Kubernetes, multi-tenant AI integrations, and DNS-based disaster recovery patterns. Known for mentoring engineers and codifying repeatable patterns, he blends operational rigor with pragmatic automation to accelerate delivery of customer-facing services.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Network Systems, Master of Science (M.S.) Network Systems at Swinburne University of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English
Github Skills (30)
arm10
azure10
bicep9
powershell9
powershell-module8
arm-templates8
microsoft8
microsoft-azure7
hashicorp7
powershell-cmdlets7
azure-pipelines7
cli5
terraform5
exe4
steroids4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MertSenel/devops-powershell
Aug 2020 - Jun 2024
Useful PowerShell Scripts for DevOps Practitioners
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
powershell-scriptspowershellpractitionersdevops
MertSenel/microservices-on-cloud-kubernetes-azure
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Azure Kubernetes Lab
Contributions:37 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 month
azurekubernetes
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