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MIHMETAKPINAR
//DEVOPS ENGINEER
Cloud/DevOps Engineer focused on Infrastructure Automation, Orchestration and Security. Strong in CI/CD, IaC and Observability — complemented by AI to accelerate workflows.
// TECHNICAL ARSENAL
SKILLS
01CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE
AWSADV
ProxmoxADV
DockerADV
OrbstackADV
LinuxADV
AzureINT
GCPINT
KubernetesBGN
02IaC & CI/CD
TerraformADV
OpenTofuADV
PuppetADV
JenkinsADV
BambooADV
BitbucketADV
AnsibleINT
Azure PipelinesINT
03NETWORK & SECURITY
FortiGateADV
SophosADV
NginxADV
HashiCorp VaultADV
KeycloakADV
OAuth2-ProxyADV
VPNINT
VLANINT
04MONITORING
GrafanaADV
PrometheusADV
ELKADV
Cursor (MCP)ADV
OllamaADV
LokiINT
TempoINT
CheckMKINT
OpenTelemetryINT
05SCRIPTING
BashADV
PythonADV
GoINT
RubyINT
TypeScriptBGN
06DATABASES & DATA
MySQLADV
Apache AirflowADV
RedisADV
PostgreSQLINT
// CAREER TIMELINE
EXPERIENCE
2023 – PresentDEVOPS ENGINEERCHECK24 VERGLEICHSPORTAL
- •Introduced CI/CD, secret management, monitoring and network/security tooling to modernise the platform.
- •Planned and executed server and firewall migrations including risk and rollback plans. Mapped the entire FortiGate infrastructure in OpenTofu and automated it with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- •Owned and evolved Puppet/Ansible configuration management for the full insurance infrastructure — DNS, web servers, databases, IAM, Nginx and pipelines across multiple environments and business units.
- •Developed an AWS S3 blueprint with OpenTofu in Docker-based development workflows.
- •Actively contributed to open-source projects.
- •Established AI-assisted workflows with Cursor, including MCP servers for SSH, Jira, Bitbucket and Elasticsearch for debugging and code reviews.
JenkinsTerraformPuppetFortiGateDockerAWS
2020 – 2023CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEERQ.BEYOND AG
- •Built and operated customer infrastructures in private/public cloud (provisioning, operations, optimisation).
- •Developed reusable IaC modules (Terraform/Ansible) for standardisation and faster rollouts.
- •Introduced automated testing with CI/CD pipelines and Ansible Molecule.
- •Performed public-to-public cloud migrations, converting hand-managed setups to fully automated IaC.
- •Conceptualised new service areas and structured project work, including stakeholder alignment and documentation.
TerraformAnsibleDockerCI/CDLinux
Hamburg, Germany
German (native) · English (business)
View full career on LinkedInEducation
Fachinformatiker AnwendungsentwicklungBerufsschule Wilhelmsburg ITECH · 2020–2022
B.Sc. Computer Science (5 semesters)Fachhochschule Wedel · 2017–2020
AbiturErich Kästner Gemeinschaftsschule Elmshorn · 2017