Summary
Serkan Capkan is a cloud-native technology leader and founder with 12 years of hands-on experience architecting and operating large-scale AWS environments, now serving as CTO & Managing Director in Amsterdam. He specializes in cloud-first strategy, infrastructure-as-code, DevOps transformation and cloud migration acceleration, backed by Professional AWS Solutions Architect, Developer and SysOps certifications. Serkan has led teams and projects across DevOps, big data and analytics, translating business requirements into resilient, secure, highly available architectures using tools like Ansible, Terraform-style IaC, Docker, EMR and Kinesis. His background ranges from building recommendation engines on EMR to implementing blue/green deployments and CI/CD at scale, showing both deep operational craft and product-minded engineering. An open-source enthusiast and Cloud Architectures meetup organizer, he combines community leadership with practical experience across nearly the full AWS service surface. Notably, he has repeatedly transformed maintenance teams into development-focused DevOps organizations, emphasizing automation and measurable delivery improvements.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English