Serdar Sutay
Engineering Manager at Rula
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSerdar Sutay is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and managing infrastructure-focused teams, currently serving as Engineering Manager in Seattle. His background spans product and engineering roles at Microsoft and Chef, through co-founding and leading technology at Boundless Immigration, giving him a blend of startup grit and enterprise delivery. He specializes in DevOps, build systems, and licensing/compliance for complex software pipelines—evidenced by substantive contributions to well-known open-source projects like Chef's omnibus and omnibus-software. Serdar pairs hands-on technical work (build configuration, dependency licensing, and packaging) with people leadership, shepherding cross-functional teams to production. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer at METU, he brings disciplined systems thinking and a practical bias for simplifying messy build and release problems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, B.S. Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Github Skills (19)
dependency-management10
licensing10
gitlab-omnibus10
configuration-management10
key-management10
ruby10
bus10
build-automation10
om10
software-packaging10
nginx10
rights-management10
devops10
cicd9
server9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chef/omnibus-software
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Open Source Software for use in Omnibus built packages
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 30 PRs, 25 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Serdar primarily focused on modifying configuration files related to software packages within the Omnibus project. Their work involved skipping transitive dependency licensing for various components such as OpenSSL, Ruby, and other dependencies. The user also addressed licensing concerns by uninstalling specific packages from the build process and removing them from the PERL_CPANM_HOME cache. The changes suggest a strong emphasis on managing software dependencies, build configurations, and ensuring compliance within the build pipeline.
omnibusopen-source-software
chef/omnibus
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Easily create full-stack installers for your project across a variety of platforms.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:37 commits, 34 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Serdar primarily contributed to the licensing and build process of the `omnibus` project. They implemented features to collect licensing information for transitive dependencies using the `license_scout` gem, and added DSL options to control the licensing behavior. They fixed error reporting for licensing issues and improved the git cache mechanism. Additionally, they introduced a new DSL for specifying licensing information for dependencies.
installersfull-stackplatformsdockervariety
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