"Every change breaks someone's workflow." — xkcd 1172
Systems Development Engineer at AWS · Berlin, Germany
Building and automating cloud infrastructure for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud — a sovereign-by-design platform operated within the EU.
- 🔧 Cloud infrastructure, container runtimes, CI/CD, and systems automation
- 🎓 MSc Informatics @ Technical University of Munich · BSc Computer Engineering @ Abdullah Gül University
✈️ Master thesis @ Airbus Defence and Space — Assessment of Container Runtimes w.r.t. Airworthiness Certification (DO-178C)- ✍️ Writing about systems engineering at mrturkmen.com · Lecture notes at tum.mrturkmen.com
| Company | Role | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | Systems Development Engineer | European Sovereign Cloud, automation, tooling, MCP Server creation, AI Workflows |
| Rohde & Schwarz | Infrastructure Software Engineer | Jenkins → GitLab CI/CD migration, Ansible, Python |
| Airbus Defence and Space | Master Thesis Student | KVM, Kata Containers, containerd, runc, gVisor, Xen |
| SAP | Cloud Engineer | Kubernetes, Python, Jenkins, HANA Cloud |
| BMW Group | Software Validation Engineer | SaltStack, Python, PowerShell, Terraform |
| Aalborg University | Software Engineer | Go, Docker, gRPC, cybersecurity platforms |
- 🔥 Haaukins — Browser-accessible cyber range platform for security training → became Campfire Security
Go · gRPC · PostgreSQL · Docker · Vue.js · CI/CD - 🛡️ DefAtt — Virtual cyber lab / attack-defense platform
Go · Open vSwitch · Wireguard · Docker · Microservices - 🔍 Richkit — Domain analysis toolkit
Python · scikit-learn · numpy · dnspython - 📦 Merkez — Example repos for GCP, AWS, Azure, Ansible, Terraform, and more
- Bridging the Gap: Adapting a Security Education Platform to a New Audience — IEEE EDUCON 2021
- DefAtt - Architecture of Virtual Cyber Labs for Research and Education — CyberSA 2021
- Integrating Project Management and Peer Assessment — PAEE/ALE 2021
- User Behaviour Analysis and Churn Prediction in ISP — 2020





