Salih Kardan
DevOps Team Lead at Picus Security
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
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Top SchoolSalih Kardan is a DevOps Team Lead with 12 years in IT, blending software development and operations expertise to deliver scalable, automated infrastructure and deployment pipelines. He has driven DevOps and backend work at companies like Picus Security and Atlassian, with hands-on experience in Java, Groovy, Go, Docker, AWS, Ansible and Jenkins. His background includes building distributed cluster management and performance testing tooling (notably contributions to Apache Usergrid/Judo Chop), reflecting a focus on reliability and large-scale orchestration. Comfortable in agile environments, he pairs team leadership with deep technical execution—often bridging coding, CI/CD automation and cloud operations. Based in Ankara, he combines formal CS education from Bilkent and Rutgers with practical open-source maintenance and integration experience.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering at TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji ÜniversitesiB.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Rutgers University-New BrunswickB.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at Bilkent UniversityScience and Technology, Science and Technology at Kayseri Baldöktü Anatolia High School
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (20)
java10
javas10
scripting9
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
shell9
script9
sh9
devops8
ganglia6
http-header6
deb6
intellij-idea6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/usergrid
May 2014 - Jul 2014
Mirror of Apache Usergrid
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:48 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Salih primarily contributed to the Usergrid project by enhancing the backend functionalities and improving deployment processes. Their work involved exporting instance IPs and hostnames, adding private IP and hostname lists, checking runner registration before tests, and integrating new features. Furthermore, the user's commits indicate efforts to merge updates from the "two-dot-o" branch, reflecting a focus on code maintenance and integration tasks.
javaapache
salihkardan/ChoppedCassandraTests
Jun 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:61 commits, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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