Oğuzhan Durgun
Software Engineer at Cerbos
Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolOğuzhan Durgun is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and secure back-end systems, currently contributing to Cerbos and previously developing Kubernetes operators for SAP Data Intelligence. He specializes in Go, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD tooling, with a strong focus on authorization, audit logging and operational security. At Cerbos he improved test frameworks, added JSON-schema-driven attribute validation, and enhanced tooling like cerbosctl and cerbos compile—work that reflects both deep system knowledge and security-minded design. His background spans large enterprises (SAP, Huawei) and embedded/web projects, giving him a pragmatic approach to reliability and scalability. Based in Türkiye, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with a habit of improving developer and operational workflows behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Sabanci University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (22)
authorizations10
json-schema10
testing10
security10
go10
authorization10
kubernetes9
policies9
kubernetes-pods9
golang9
access-control9
apidoc8
api8
html6
cuda6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cerbos/cerbos
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Cerbos is the open core, language-agnostic, scalable authorization solution that makes user permissions and authorization simple to implement and manage by writing context-aware access control policies for your application resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:381 reviews, 55 commits, 386 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Oğuzhan primarily contributed to refactoring the test framework and improving the authorization solution by implementing features related to attribute validation using JSON schemas. They also worked on enhancing the `cerbos compile` sub-command with tree output functionality, showcasing an understanding of the system's internal workings. Furthermore, they addressed various issues and integrated support for zip files and Postgres store within the `cerbosctl`. Their work also involved improvements to audit logging, indicating a focus on security and operational aspects of the project.
golangpolicycontext-awarescalableauthorization
oguzhand95/cerbos
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
The Cerbos engine
Contributions:1190 pushes, 290 branches in 3 years 5 months
cerbossecuritycryptography
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