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Alperen
Adalar

Backend & DevOps Engineer

I design backend services and run production infrastructure, cloud and on-prem: from APIs and data to orchestration, CI/CD, and observability.

About

I've spent 4+ years building scalable backend services and operating the production infrastructure they run on, from API design and database architecture to container orchestration and observability. I like owning systems end to end: if I write it, I also deploy it, monitor it, and get paged for it.

Currently at Ecolarium, where I architect multi-tenant SaaS platforms and run Kubernetes clusters and 3-node PostgreSQL HA setups. On the open-source side I author MCP servers that let LLMs operate enterprise infrastructure: Active Directory, network operations, Proxmox, and FortiGate.

location
Türkiye · UTC+3
experience
4+ years
currently
Ecolarium
education
Konya Technical University
degree
BSc Computer Eng.
english
C1 Advanced

Experience

  1. Jul 2025 – present

    Türkiye

    Backend & DevOps Engineer

    Ecolarium Dijital Teknolojiler

    • Designed and operated 3-node high-availability PostgreSQL clusters with streaming replication, automated backups, and performance tuning.
    • Ran production Kubernetes clusters (kubeadm) and authored 10+ Helm charts for versioned releases and safe rollbacks.
    • Architected a multi-tenant ESG-reporting SaaS on Django and django-tenants with per-tenant schema isolation and 30+ organization-level KPIs.
    • Engineered a real-time computer-vision occupational safety (OHS) platform: RTSP camera ingestion, YOLO-based PPE and restricted-zone detection, and WebRTC live monitoring with video-evidence alarms.
    • Built real-time pipelines with Apache Kafka and Django Channels, processing 1,000+ telemetry events per second.
    • Led an Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration (ora2pg), modernizing 100+ legacy tables, stored procedures, and views.
    • Django
    • FastAPI
    • Kubernetes
    • Helm
    • PostgreSQL
    • Kafka
    • Celery
    • YOLO
    • GitLab CI
  2. Jul 2023 – Dec 2024

    İstanbul

    Data Engineer / DevOps Engineer

    EVAM

    • Architected and managed AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS) for production data and application workloads.
    • Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for 10+ containerized services running on Kubernetes and Rancher.
    • Designed and orchestrated 30+ Apache Airflow DAGs for ETL workflows, reducing manual intervention.
    • Deployed Zabbix monitoring across 50+ network devices, servers, and applications with custom alerting.
    • AWS
    • Jenkins
    • Kubernetes
    • Rancher
    • Airflow
    • Zabbix
    • Superset
    • Keycloak
  3. Oct 2021 – Jul 2023

    Konya

    Software Developer

    IMAS Machinery Industry

    • Built Python pipelines processing kHz-range industrial sensor data across 30+ channels per machine.
    • Integrated PLCs and single-board computers on the production floor over RPC, TCP/IP, and Modbus (RTU/TCP).
    • Operated ThingsBoard server and edge clusters for 20+ connected industrial devices; ran Kafka for machine-to-analytics streaming.
    • Designed predictive-maintenance models (scikit-learn) to detect anomalies and reduce unplanned downtime.
    • Python
    • Modbus
    • ThingsBoard
    • Kafka
    • scikit-learn
    • Siemens S7
  4. Dec 2021 – Feb 2023

    Konya

    Software Developer · Part-time

    Konya Science Center

    • Shipped augmented-reality applications used daily by public visitors in interactive science exhibits.
    • Built Android applications with native UI and device-level integrations.
    • Administered Linux servers and Dockerized services running 24/7 in public exhibits.
    • Android
    • AR
    • Docker
    • Linux
    • Embedded

Projects

Open-Source MCP Server Suite

An open-source suite of Model Context Protocol servers that puts enterprise infrastructure under natural-language, LLM-driven control. Built with Python, FastMCP, Pydantic, and Docker; used from Claude, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible clients.

Vitalert Vision

production · Ecolarium

A production computer-vision platform that detects occupational-safety (OHS) violations in real time from IP camera streams: YOLO-based detection with sliced inference, PPE and restricted-zone monitoring, eight alarm types with video evidence, vehicle geofencing with Kinney risk analysis, and a live WebSocket operations dashboard.

  • Django
  • Vue 3
  • YOLO
  • Celery
  • Channels
  • Docker
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

TUBITAK 1711 · AI Ecosystem · Contributed to two TUBITAK 1711 (Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem) funded R&D projects. (2022 – 2023)

more on github ↗

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS (EC2, S3, RDS)
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • Rancher
  • Proxmox
  • Nginx

CI/CD & Observability

  • GitLab CI
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • Ansible
  • Apache Airflow
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Zabbix
  • SonarQube

Backend & Data

  • Django / DRF
  • FastAPI
  • gRPC
  • Celery
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • InfluxDB
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • MQTT

Languages

  • Python
  • Go
  • Java
  • C++
  • SQL
  • Bash

IoT & Industrial

  • ThingsBoard
  • Modbus TCP/RTU
  • Siemens S7 PLC
  • ESP32
  • Raspberry Pi
  • YOLO / OpenCV
  • MCP

Security & Compliance

  • FortiGate
  • pfSense
  • Active Directory / LDAP
  • KVKK / GDPR
  • 5651 compliance

Background

award

1st Place · ArkSigner Mobile Payment Hackathon

ID-card and face-recognition based mobile payment application. (2022)

education

BSc, Computer Engineering

Konya Technical University (2020 – 2026)

organization

Founding Chairman · AI & Data Science Laboratory

Konya Technical University (2021 – 2026)

languages

  • Turkish · Native
  • English · C1 Advanced

Contact

Open to backend and DevOps roles, and to interesting infrastructure problems, remote or hybrid. The fastest way to reach me:

alp.adalar@gmail.com