Summary
Serkan Haytac is a Principal DevOps Engineer and SRE with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading reliability and platform work at iHeartMedia from Miami. He has a proven track record at Hearst and startups, designing AWS architectures across ECS, RDS, VPCs and implementing CI/CD, containerization, centralized logging and monitoring at scale. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and an operations leader, he has run everything from Hadoop and PostGIS databases to automated Chef and Docker-driven workflows. Serkan’s background in hands-on ops, tooling automation with Python/Bash, and running multi-VPC Linux estates means he often bridges the gap between dev teams and production systems. He’s also delivered reproducible developer environments and observability stacks that materially reduced toil and incident time-to-resolution.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Florida Gulf Coast University
n/a Computer Information Systems, n/a Computer Information Systems at Hodges University
English, Turkish, German