Summary
Önsel Akin is a Senior Cloud Native Engineer based in Istanbul with over two decades in technology and more than a decade focused on cloud-native systems and platform engineering. He leads cross-functional teams to design and deliver enterprise-grade internal developer platforms, multi-region EKS clusters, and secure, compliant Azure/AWS infrastructures using Terraform, Go-based testing frameworks, and GitOps with ArgoCD. His work blends deep hands-on implementation—service mesh with Istio, Crossplane XRDs, custom GitLab CI/CD pipelines—and pragmatic automation, including AI-powered Slack bots built with LangChain and OpenAI. He has driven cost-management and compliance platforms, modernized legacy systems, and contributed to open-source compliance and secrets projects with Finos/OSCAL contributors. An experienced mentor and presenter, he couples technical leadership with attention to developer experience and burnout prevention. Notably, his technical articles have reached wide audiences and his platform work has been featured in customer case studies.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Mathematics, Bachelor, Mathematics at Istanbul University
English