Mehmet Başaran

Mehmet Başaran

DevOps Engineer & Linux System Admin

About Me

Over the past year, I have thrived as a DevOps engineer, drawing on my solid background in Linux system administration, infrastructure monitoring, and cluster management. Prior to this, I gained three years of experience as a systems engineer and monitoring specialist, further deepening my expertise in backend operations.

My key strength lies in driving efficiency and simplifying complex system management. I have consistently delivered in designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale Linux environments, ensuring stability and performance across critical systems.

I have led the implementation of high-availability architectures and managed robust CI/CD pipelines that streamline software delivery and reduce deployment risks. These efforts have directly supported agile development teams and enhanced product reliability.

Passionate about operational excellence and automation, I am eager to contribute my skills to a forward-thinking team, where I can help build resilient infrastructure and deliver impactful, scalable solutions.

Additionally, I have experience in developing LLM-based solutions and utilizing prompt engineering to automate system operations and human-system interactions, enhancing overall efficiency and reducing manual workload.

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

Sebit Information & Education Technologies Inc. Sep 2020 - Present
  • Installing and maintaining high available applications such as Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, etc.
  • Writing new CI/CD pipelines and maintaining old ones using Agile methodologies (Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker).
  • Installation and maintenance of services used in the data layer, error analysis.
  • Solving problems experienced by developers in Kubernetes environments and maintaining K8s clusters.
  • Design, implementation, and monitoring of systems collecting metrics from VMs, virtualization systems (K8s), and services, with automated anomaly alerting.
  • Preparing scripts and plugins for Zabbix and Nagios for service/metric control.
  • Implementing dissemination processes for monitoring systems (Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Glowroot, etc.).
  • Managing and monitoring beta, pre-prod, and prod deployments for all products with Jenkins and Ansible.
  • Creating and configuring VMs and services manually and using Ansible.
  • Examining generated alarms and taking appropriate actions.

System Monitoring Specialist & DevOps Engineer

Sole Proprietorship June 2024 - Present
  • Deployment and maintenance of high-availability systems (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka, etc.), CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker), and comprehensive monitoring solutions tailored to client needs.
  • Kubernetes environment support, troubleshooting, deployment management, and monitoring with customized automation scripts.
  • AWS services setup and management (RDS, EC2, LB, S3, etc.).

Skills

Environments

RedhatDebianDockerVMwareK8S

Automation & Scripting

AnsibleJenkinsPythonBash

Monitoring

NagiosZabbixGlowrootPrometheus

Database & Queue

PostgreSQLMySQLElasticsearchCassandraKafka

Cloud & Other

AWS (RDS, EC2, LB, S3, Lambda)NginxTomcatGitLLM Prompting

Education

B.E., Computer Engineering

Gazi University, Engineering Faculty 2021

GPA: 2.62/4.00

Languages

Turkish: Native English: Fluent