About
More about me and my skills
Salih Kayiplar
Cloud & DevOps Engineer
Hi I'm Salih Kayiplar
I am a Freelancer working in Cloud and DevOps and highly enjoy working in all things related to Cloud Native.
Below, you will find an overview of my skills and my self-assessment, based on my experiences and knowledge.
Assessments Levels:
- Expert: Extensive experience in designing, implementing and managing large scale, enterprise environments and highly-available setups. Deep understanding of the field on a technical level and able to solve complex, unique problems that may not arise in other setups and are specific to a single environment. Also able to guide and mentor others.
- Advanced: Very good understanding of core concepts and able to implement, manage and scale highly-available setups. Identify and solve most common problems, with some learning period also able to solve the most complex problems.
- Intermediate: Basic understanding of core concepts, but not able to implement, manage and scale highly-available setups. Still implemented some small setup and have real-life experiece. Able to identify and solve some common problems.
- Beginner: Basic understanding of core concepts and use cases, but no hands-on and real-life experience in implementing setups. With some learning period, able to implement real-life setups in an MVP fashion.
Brief overview of my skills and self-assessment
Skill | Tools/Platforms/Frameworks | Level |
---|---|---|
Cloud | Azure | Expert |
Hetzner Cloud | Expert | |
AWS | Advanced | |
VMWare Cloud Director | Intermediate | |
wasmCloud | Intermediate | |
GCP | Beginner | |
OpenStack | Beginner | |
Platforms | GitHub | Expert |
GitLab | Expert | |
Azure DevOps | Advanced | |
Bitbucket | Advanced | |
Administration | Linux / Unix | Expert |
Windows | Intermediate | |
Orchestration & Scheduling | Kubernetes | Expert |
Crossplane | Intermediate | |
Armada | Beginner | |
Nomad | Beginner | |
Application Definition & Image Build | Helm | Expert |
Dockerfile | Expert | |
KubeVela | Intermediate | |
Operator Framework | Intermediate | |
Backstage | Beginner | |
CI/CD | ArgoCD | Expert |
FluxCD | Expert | |
Kustomize | Expert | |
GitHub Actions | Expert | |
GitLab Pipelines | Expert | |
Azure DevOps Pipelines | Expert | |
Jenkins Pipelines | Expert | |
Flagger | Beginner | |
Infrastructure as Code | Terraform | Expert |
Terragrunt | Expert | |
Terratest | Intermediate | |
Pulumi (Python SDK) | Intermediate | |
Obervability & Analysis | Prometheus | Expert |
Grafana | Expert | |
Grafana Loki | Expert | |
Promtail | Expert | |
Grafana Mimir | Expert | |
Grafana Tempo | Expert | |
Grafana Agent | Expert | |
OpenTelemetry | Expert | |
ELK Stack | Advanced | |
fluentd | Advanced | |
Jaeger | Advanced | |
Thanos | Intermediate | |
Cortex | Beginner | |
Cloud Native Storage | Minio | Expert |
Longhorn | Beginner | |
Rook Ceph | Beginner | |
Cloud Native Network | Calico | Advanced |
Cilium | Advanced | |
Azure CNI | Advanced | |
Security & Compliance | Keycloak | Expert |
cert-manager | Expert | |
HashiCorp Vault | Expert | |
External Secrets Operator | Expert | |
Kyverno | Beginner | |
Notary | Beginner | |
Backup & Restore | Velero | Expert |
GitLab Backups | Intermediate | |
Container Registry | Harbor | Expert |
Dragonfly | Beginner | |
Databases | Postgres Operator Zalando & Crunchydata | Advanced |
SQL Databases (Postgresql, MySql, MSSQL) | Advanced | |
NoSQL Databases (MongoDB) | Advanced | |
K/V Storage (Redis, Cassandra) | Advanced | |
Streaming & Messaging | NATS | Expert |
RabbitMQ (AMQP/MQTT) | Advanced | |
cloudevents | Advanced | |
Service Proxy / Gateway | Nginx (Ingress Controller) | Expert |
Traefik (Ingress Controller) | Expert | |
Envoy (Ingress Controller) | Intermediate | |
HAProxy | Intermediate | |
Kong | Intermediate | |
Access Management | HashiCorp Boundary | Expert |
Service Mesh | Linkerd | Expert |
Istio | Beginner | |
Serverless | OpenFaaS | Advanced |
Knative | Advanced | |
Programming | Python 3.x, especially Django Framework | Expert |
Golang | Advanced | |
Java 11 | Intermediate | |
AI / ML Tools | Ray | Intermediate |
Memgraph | Intermediate | |
Other Tools | Renovate | Expert |
External DNS | Expert | |
K3S | Expert | |
Cloud Init | Expert | |
Ansible | Intermediate |