Mertcan GÖKGÖZ

Mertcan GÖKGÖZ

Software Developer

I'm a software developer and trying my best to add some fun to places where your face might show up. Previously worked on the DevOps/NetOps team to help automate processes and increase productivity

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer/Software Developer

BRANDEFENSE BİLİŞİM DANIŞMANLIK SANAYİ VE TİCARET A.Ş.

06/2019 — Present
Achievements/Tasks
  • Managed bare metal dedicated Debian servers and later AWS EC2 instances, S3 buckets, CloudFronts and RabbitMQ
  • Developed complex web projects using django and i prepared installation, configuration and management scripts with Ansible.
  • Managed a hand crafted PostgreSQL database with the size of 490 GB.
  • Developed Docker images and automatized deployments to AWS EC2.

System Engineer

Horus Bilgi İletişim Tekknolojileri A.Ş.

09/2017 — 01/2019
Achievements/Tasks
  • 7/24 remote support to debian and centos based systems.
  • Managed bare metal dedicated Debian servers and later AWS EC2 instances, S3 buckets, CloudFronts and RabbitMQ
  • Developed complex web projects using django and i prepared installation, configuration and management scripts with Ansible.
  • Migrated from Microsoft Windows Server systems to GNU/Linux systems.
  • I made virtualizations on Vmware ESXI.
  • Prepared installation, configuration and management scripts with Ansible.

System Engineer

Forte Bilgi İletişim Teknolojileri ve Savunma Sanayi A.Ş.

02/2017 — 09/2017
Achievements/Tasks
  • Performed the installation and configuration of IPS/IDS hardware.
  • Configured Cisco, HP, Dell and Extreme brand network devices.
  • Setup DELL, HP and IBM servers.
  • I assisted end users in solving problems.
  • Migrated to the Vmware Horizon desktop virtualization infrastructure.

System Engineer Intern

Özgür Yazılım A.S.

06/2016 — 08/2016
Achievements/Tasks
  • Configured and maintained GNU/Linux servers and wrote monitoring scripts.
  • Setup CI and CD to automatize tests and builds with GitLab CI

Skills

  • GNU/Linux System Administration
  • AWS
  • Apache/Nginx/Litespeed
  • Python/PHP
  • Virtualization
  • Routing/Switching
  • PostgreSQL/MySQL
  • Git/SVN
  • Docker/Kubernetes
  • GitLab CI/Github Action
  • Wordpress
  • Windows System Administration
  • Django/Flask/Fastapi

Achievements & Workshops

DevOps 101/Linux 101- Hacktrick'1

Personal Projects

  • yapistir_io
    — Yet another paste bin app written in python.
  • IP-Intelligence
    — Simple IP Intelligence is a service that determines high-risk ip addresses
  • QSNMP
    — Basic SNMP applicaton for demonstrating the use of the pysnmp library.

Organizations

Network Administrators Association of Turkey

04/2017 — Present

Hacktrick: Cyber Security Conf

05/2017 — Present

Education

Management Information System

2012 — 2017
Başkent University

Languages

  • English
  • Turkish