Utku Özdemir
Software Engineer at siderolabs
Berlin, Germany
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RockstarUtku Özdemir is a Berlin-based software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable back-end and DevOps solutions for cloud-native systems. He contributes to production-grade open-source projects such as Talos Linux, where he improved bootloader handling and added etcd health checks to harden Kubernetes node reliability. His work on an Nvidia GPU Prometheus exporter demonstrates deep systems-level parsing and metrics discovery skills, optimizing multi-GPU support and runtime performance. Comfortable across infrastructure, observability, and core system components, he blends engineering rigor with pragmatic automation. Colleagues value his ability to turn low-level system detail into maintainable tools that improve cluster operability.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (40)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
linux10
etcd10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
system-administration10
devops10
authentication9
javafx9
intellij-idea9
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
utkuozdemir/nvidia_gpu_exporter
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Nvidia GPU exporter for prometheus using nvidia-smi binary
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 148 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Utku primarily contributed to the development and improvement of a Prometheus exporter for Nvidia GPUs. Their work included parsing the output from `nvidia-smi`, implementing more robust parsing logic, and refactoring the code for better performance and support for multiple GPUs. They added utility code to parse query fields. They also added support for automatic discovery of query fields and incorporated it for the auto-detection of available metrics.
exportersmiprometheus-exporternvidianvidia-smi
siderolabs/talos
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:366 reviews, 44 commits, 85 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Utku made significant contributions to the Talos Linux project, specifically focusing on core system components. They implemented a new GRUB configuration parser, including descriptive menu entries and the removal of the legacy Syslinux bootloader. Furthermore, the user added a new health check to verify etcd members and their control plane status, enhancing system reliability. The commits also involved extending node definitions for health checks and integrating the discovery service.
containersmuslcontainerdlinux-distributiongrpc
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