Umut Akcan
Staff Platform & DevOps Engineer
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolUmut Akcan is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Istanbul with over five years of hands-on experience architecting and operating production-grade Kubernetes platforms and CI/CD pipelines for banking applications. Holding CKA, CKS, and CKAD certifications, he combines deep Kubernetes administration (kubeadm, containerd, Cilium) with GitOps and Tekton-based CI workflows to accelerate delivery of Java Spring Boot and .NET services. He has driven end-to-end automation and observability using ArgoCD, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Ansible, and scripting to stabilize critical financial systems under strict compliance constraints. Comfortable across Linux and Windows server ecosystems, Umut brings practical middleware and messaging expertise from roles at Halkbank and Kalkınma Yatırım Bankası. A detail-oriented implementer, he often bridges infrastructure and development teams by translating complex platform needs into reproducible playbooks and pipelines.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bahcesehir University
Turkish, English
Github Skills (1)
tekton1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
umtakcn/EndtoEndDevOps
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:96 commits, 3 pushes in 1 month
umtakcn/ansible-redis
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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