Süleyman Akbaş
Associate Manager
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolSüleyman Akbaş is an experienced cloud-native engineer and manager with 10 years building and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure and CI/CD automation, now leading teams at Red Hat in Munich. He combines hands-on Go development and Kubernetes operator work with DevOps expertise, having driven Jenkins-to-Prow migrations, automated test infra for Kyma, and contributed DNS and cross-cloud fixes to OpenShift's cluster-ingress-operator. At SAP he integrated observability tooling and implemented production-grade deployment operators across AWS, Azure and GCP, and he still contributes to prominent open-source projects that power enterprise Kubernetes platforms. He holds an MSc from the University of Helsinki and a BSc from Bilkent, and is known for turning complex release and testing workflows into reliable, automatable pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science - Algorithms, Data Analytics and Machine Learning, 4/5, MSc, Computer Science - Algorithms, Data Analytics and Machine Learning, 4/5 at University of HelsinkiBSc, Computer Science, 3.21/4.00, BSc, Computer Science, 3.21/4.00 at Bilkent ÜniversitesiErasmus, Computer Science, Erasmus, Computer Science at Uppsala University
English, Turkish, German
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Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
docker10
testing10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
automation10
script10
go10
openshift10
proc10
ci-cd-pipeline10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kyma-project/kyma
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Kyma is an opinionated set of Kubernetes-based modular building blocks, including all necessary capabilities to develop and run enterprise-grade cloud-native applications.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:166 reviews, 26 commits, 348 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Süleyman primarily focused on automating and improving the Kyma project's infrastructure and testing. They modified Jenkinsfiles and release scripts for versioning and publishing. They also added scripts to integrate Kyma tests with Prow jobs, incorporating Debian dependencies and deployment scripts, including the addition of watch-pods functionality, and finally, moved the prow folder under installation scripts.
flexibledevopscloud-foundryopenui5sap-hana
openshift/cluster-ingress-operator
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
The Cluster Ingress Operator manages highly available network ingress for OpenShift
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:52 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Süleyman primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the cluster-ingress-operator. Their contributions included refactoring code related to DNS management, specifically addressing domain matching within the cluster's DNS configuration. Additionally, the user addressed a bug by removing deprecated API fields related to infrastructure platform status. Furthermore, the user contributed to the test suite, introducing new tests and modifying existing ones to ensure proper behavior on different cloud platforms.
ingress-networkingress-controlleropenshiftoperatoringress
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