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Alican Kayikci

Alican Kayikci

DevOps Engineer
Vancouver

Summary

I can work legally in Canada. 3 Years of experience in DevOps with CKA certificate, 10+ years of experience in OT networks, and 4+ years in Python. Passionate about automating IT processes. Experience with AWS and Azure services. Thanks to my Python knowledge, I am a DevOps engineer who is familiar with databases and application interactions. Problem-solving and system design. Able to use the scrum methodology as a project management.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
1
1
Language

Work History

Devops Engineer

INAVITAS Energy A.S
06.2023 - 07.2025
  • Company Overview: Inavitas provides visualization, management, and reporting software for system monitoring and SCADA automation to electricity distribution companies in Turkey
  • By using Jenkins on k8s for building, ArgoCD for deployment, and Gitlab for the repo and versioning, transitioned into a modern form of CI/CD. It streamlined our CI/CD pipelines almost 2 times faster.
  • Overseeing DevOps processes to enhance development in test, stage, and production environments
  • Setting up CD processes on-premise servers with the help of ansible-playbooks, including tools like Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Rancher, and monitoring systems (Grafana, Prometheus, Node Exporters)
  • Installation and setup of Highly Available on-premise Kubernetes environments, even air-gap ones, reduce downtime by 30% and improve system reliability, leading to increased productivity and customer satisfaction
  • Performing network and disk operations like port mapping, routing, IP table configurations, and LVM on Linux OS for different electricity distribution companies' on-prem servers
  • Set up Longhorn storage solutions for HA environments
  • Knowledge of Nginx proxy server configuration and certification
  • Keeping old EKS clusters costs you almost double (AWS)
  • I created Ansible scripts to install K8S cluster and management tools like Rancher and ArgoCD. Thus, the installation process time was shortened to nearly 2 hours
  • Familiar with patroni PostgreSQL cluster and has Postgresql DBA certificate
  • Created best-practice AWS environments with Terragrunt infra as a code tool
  • Configuration and deployment knowledge about Redis, Redisgraph, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana and 3rd party Node Exporters

Transport Management

Dunya Tranport Inc.
02.2023 - 06.2023
  • Tracked, managed, and provided updates on the goods' journey to the shipper
  • Manage and resolve exigencies that arise during the movement of goods
  • Provide customer support to the carrier or the final customer who's receiving the goods
  • Complete the delivery process

SCADA Engineer

AKEDAS Electricity Distribution
12.2011 - 02.2023
  • Hands-on experience in Network, Linux, Docker, and solid knowledge of Industrial systems like SCADA, RTU, MODBUS, IEC104, and coding applications with Python
  • Wrote over 30+ Linux bash scripts for automation purposes
  • Fetched and monitored 18 power analyzer data from Modbus-supported devices via the Python code, which I wrote as OOP
  • Used Scikit-Learn k-Means library to distinguish 3+ different feeder types (Industrial, household, residence, etc..)

Protection and Coor. Engineer

MEDAS Electricity Distribution
02.2011 - 12.2011

Overhead line protection and coordination.

Maintenance Engineer

Matesa Textile
07.2009 - 01.2011
  • Overall responsibility for electric equipment maintenance of the painting department

Field Deployment Engineer

Cizgi Engineering
09.2007 - 11.2009
  • Developed DaqFactory Industrial SCADA software projects and automation logics for HVAC systems

Education

Msc - Electric and Electronic Engineering

KSU
Kahramanmaraş, 46
09.2019 - 07.2021

Bsc - Electric and Electronic Engineering

KSU
Kahramanmaraş, 46
09.2002 - 07.2007

Skills

Docker and Kubernetes

GitLab

Ansible

Jenkins

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Certification

AWS & Devops Module From Clarusway

Custom

Python, Bash Scripting, MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS Cloud Services (3 Years), Azure Cloud Service (1 Year), Jenkins, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Nexus Repository, Maven, Grafana, Prometheus, Nginx, HAProxy, Kafka, Redis

Affiliations

  • Running

Worth Checking Out:

[ https://github.com/polilies/thingsboard/tree/main/test ]

[ https://github.com/polilies/milestones/tree/main/bookstore_docker_compose ]

[ https://github.com/polilies/reactive_optimiser ]

References

References available upon request.

Personal Information

Languages

IELTS overall score 6,3

Timeline

Devops Engineer

INAVITAS Energy A.S
06.2023 - 07.2025

Transport Management

Dunya Tranport Inc.
02.2023 - 06.2023

Msc - Electric and Electronic Engineering

KSU
09.2019 - 07.2021

SCADA Engineer

AKEDAS Electricity Distribution
12.2011 - 02.2023

Protection and Coor. Engineer

MEDAS Electricity Distribution
02.2011 - 12.2011

Maintenance Engineer

Matesa Textile
07.2009 - 01.2011

Field Deployment Engineer

Cizgi Engineering
09.2007 - 11.2009

Bsc - Electric and Electronic Engineering

KSU
09.2002 - 07.2007
Alican KayikciDevOps Engineer