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Experience
  • Jan 2023 to present: Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer at Humana. Served as Technical Lead for a full-stack project using ReactJS, node.js, typescript, tailwindcss, SQL server, terraform, Azure yaml pipelines, azure cognitive search service, Azure Service Bus, App Service Environment, Linux Web Apps, Key-vaults.
  • July 2021 to Jan 2023: Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. I developed build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps in classic and yaml pipelines. Used service principals in Azure Active Directory; Key Vaults to store keys and other secrets used by cloud apps and services. I worked on Azure Function Apps coded in Python to parse the call stack of crashes. Used python, unit tests, pytest, patch, mocking objects for API calls or reading external data.
  • 5/2009 to 8/2010: Software engineer and database admin, PowerDEX Inc., Reno, NV. (MVC, Silverlight, .NET 4.0, AJAX, C#, MSSQL, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, CSS)
  • 5/2008 to 8/2008: Web programmer, Testwave LLC, Reno, NV. Developed a database-driven system in ASP.NET 3.5, MSSQL server
  • 5/2007 – 8/2007: Web programmer, Yourally Inc., Reno, NV. (PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX)
Certificates
Skills
Languages: Java, Python, C#, C++, C, Powershell, Bash, JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, TailwindCSS, Next.Js, React Native,
Back End: MySQL, SQL, PostgreSQL, RDBMS, MongoDB, NodeJS, Express, REST API, JSON, Tomcat, Postman, Google Firebase,
Cloud: Azure Devops; Classic pipelines, yaml pipelines, Azure Active Directory; Key Vaults, Azure repos, Azure Function Apps; Docker, AWS, Google GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform,
Academic Positions
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA (August 2011)
  • M.S. in Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA (August 2006)
  • B.E. in Computer Engineering, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey (September 2002)
Advising

I served as a master’s thesis adviser for 11 graduate students.
I served as a thesis committee member for 14 graduate students.
I supervised 7 students on Independent Study in IT course.

Teaching Experience
  • IT Infrastructure Sustainability (2016 – 2020). Topics: Virtualization (VirtualBox, VMware, Hyper-V), Cloud (AWS, Google Cloud).
  • Advanced Storage Technologies (2017 – 2020).
  • Advanced Systems Administration (2017 – 2020).
  • IT Research Methods (2016 – 2018)
  • System Admin Basics (2020)
  • Teaching Prep System Admin (2020)
  • Scripting for Network and Security (2017, 2020). Topics: Bash script, PowerShell, Python. [my videos]
  • Application Programming (2017)
  • Azure Fundamentals Bootcamp (2020)
  • Computer Networks (2011 – 2014)
  • Algorithms and Data Structures (2011 – 2013). My videos on youtube
  • Algorithm and Programming Design in C (Spring 2016). My videos on youtube
  • Java Programming (2011 – 2016). My videos on youtube
  • Intermediate Programming in Java (Spring 2013, Fall 2015). My videos on youtube
  • Advanced Computer Programming in Java (Fall 2014, Spring 2015). My videos on youtube
  • Complex Networks (Spring 2012)