Volkan Özçelik
Principal Kubernetes Software Engineer At VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolVolkan Özçelik is a Principal Kubernetes Software Engineer with 14+ years building high-performance, secure cloud-native systems for telco and enterprise at Broadcom/VMware and Cisco. He architects resilient Kubernetes control planes, secrets and identity tooling (creator of VMware Secrets Manager), and has led large migrations and security hardening efforts across fleet-scale platforms. A performance-obsessed polyglot, Volkan blends low-level engineering (Go, C++, Erlang/Haskell experiments) with pragmatic operator-style automation and policy-driven security (SPIFFE chair). He holds a patent for infinitely scrolling massive datasets and frequently evangelizes at conferences and in the cloud-native community. Based in Mountain View, he’s known for spotting five-year trends early and turning ambitious visions into maintainable, production-grade reality.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Finance, Marketing, Advertising, HR, MBA, Finance, Marketing, Advertising, HR at Doğuş UniversityGraduate, Computer Sciences, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Communication Engineering, Graduate, Computer Sciences, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Communication Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, Turkish, German
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Github Skills (198)
identity10
testing10
drag10
spiffe10
cosign10
security10
backup10
sortable10
migrate10
spire10
javascript10
aegis10
volumes10
secret-management10
zero-trust10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
v0lkan/kiraz
Dec 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 5 months
similartracingjavascriptloggingdtrace
spiffe/spike
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
SPIKE is a lightweight secrets store that uses SPIFFE as its identity control plane. It protects your secrets and helps your ops, SREs, and sysadmins manage sensitive data securely with minimal overhead.
Contributions:24 releases, 50 reviews, 135 PRs in 4 months
cloud-nativedevopsdevsecopsidentity-managementinfrastructure
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