Turkel Kadirzade
Lead Technical Architect at Emirates NBD
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolTurkel Kadirzade is a Lead Technical Architect based in Dubai with 8 years of focused experience designing and delivering cloud-native, secure banking platforms. He has driven large-scale migrations and platform modernizations at Emirates NBD, including moving from a single OpenShift cluster to multi-cluster vanilla Kubernetes and redesigning CI/CD with Jenkins, ArgoCD and Kaniko. He architects resilient microservices and infrastructure—leveraging Istio, Vault, Helm and service patterns—to automate multi-cluster deployments and dynamic configuration at scale. Previously as a co-founder he led the microservices migration and AWS-to-EKS redesign for a cryptocurrency transaction platform, applying patterns like CQRS, Event Sourcing and SAGA. Known for combining hands-on .NET Core implementation with Spring Boot guidance, he also mentors engineering teams and bridges technical and business stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions. His background in both core banking and fintech gives him a pragmatic edge in translating complex regulatory and operational needs into automated, maintainable architectures.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Ege University
Github Skills (11)
python7
api3
oms3
asp-net-core-mvc3
hosting3
asp-net-core2
opentracing2
asp-net2
distributed-tracing1
opentelemetry1
dotnet-core1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
turkelk/Quantic
Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
Quantic Framework
Contributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pythonframework
multiclusteristio/poc
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:190 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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