Mustafa Gezen
Technical Steering Committee Member at Rocky Linux
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolMustafa Gezen is a release engineering leader with 12 years of experience building cloud-native build and automation systems for enterprise Linux distributions, currently serving on the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation board and the OpenELA Technical Steering Committee. He invented an open patch architecture and maintains key reference tooling (srpmproc, distrobuild, Mothership) that automate SRPM imports, patching and attestation across Rocky Linux and affiliated projects. Mustafa has led cross-cloud release pipelines, ISO and marketplace artifact generation, and built secure, keyless access flows for public cloud marketplaces—work that underpins trusted, automated distro releases. Based in Oslo, he blends hands-on implementation with governance, shipping both foundational open-source projects (Peridot, yumrepofs, secparse) and operational release systems. Unusually for a release engineer, he holds an MS in Medical Informatics, reflecting a propensity for rigorous, data-driven problem solving outside traditional CS pathways.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Medical Informatics, Master of Science - MS, Medical Informatics at UiT- The Arctic University of Norway
Norwegian, Turkish, English
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Github Skills (110)
perl10
debian-linux10
sdk10
theos10
solaris10
efi10
upstream10
chroot10
manjaro10
debian9
linux9
distro9
code-injection9
btrfs9
ubuntu9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rocky-linux/distrobuild-extra
Feb 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 2 months
mstg/peridot
Jul 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:62 pushes, 58 branches in 2 years 3 months
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