Serkan Demirel
DevOps Engineer Solution Architect at Made With Denjin
Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSerkan Demirel is a DevOps engineer and solution architect with 16 years of software engineering experience, currently driving cloud-native operations for the Port of Rotterdam’s critical HaMIS platform. He specializes in containerized microservice architectures, Kubernetes, and secure 24/7 operational systems, having migrated large monoliths to resilient microservices and implemented observability and CI/CD practices at scale. As co-founder of Made With Denjin he has hands‑on experience building serverless and mobile services (AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, React Native) and designing scheduling and fitness products end-to-end. His background spans municipal and enterprise systems, from OpenShift deployments for the City of Rotterdam to JavaEE modernization at the European Patent Office, showing a balance of legacy modernization and cutting-edge tooling. Notably, he combines on-call operational discipline with architectural leadership—serving as a deputy deployment coordinator, scrum master, and long-term member of architectural teams. Based in Rotterdam, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment and a track record of keeping mission-critical systems reliable under continuous change.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor (BICT), Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor (BICT), Information and Communication Technology at Haagse Hogeschool/TH Rijswijk
English, Dutch, Turkish
Github Skills (14)
creator9
gradle-plugin8
maven-plugin8
jenkins-plugin8
sip6
security6
composition5
software-composition-analysis5
vulnerabilities4
vulnerability-detection4
owasp3
ant-task3
sca3
europeana1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
portofrotterdam/exception-submitter-for-jira
Jan 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:35 pushes in 1 year 9 months
tracesstack-tracesduplicatenew-issuesrest-service
portofrotterdam/undertow
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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