About

More about me and my skills

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

SkillTools/Platforms/FrameworksLevel
CloudAzureExpert
Hetzner CloudExpert
AWSAdvanced
VMWare Cloud DirectorIntermediate
wasmCloudIntermediate
GCPBeginner
OpenStackBeginner
PlatformsGitHubExpert
GitLabExpert
Azure DevOpsAdvanced
BitbucketAdvanced
AdministrationLinux / UnixExpert
WindowsIntermediate
Orchestration & SchedulingKubernetesExpert
CrossplaneIntermediate
ArmadaBeginner
NomadBeginner
Application Definition & Image BuildHelmExpert
DockerfileExpert
KubeVelaIntermediate
Operator FrameworkIntermediate
BackstageBeginner
CI/CDArgoCDExpert
FluxCDExpert
KustomizeExpert
GitHub ActionsExpert
GitLab PipelinesExpert
Azure DevOps PipelinesExpert
Jenkins PipelinesExpert
FlaggerBeginner
Infrastructure as CodeTerraformExpert
TerragruntExpert
TerratestIntermediate
Pulumi (Python SDK)Intermediate
Obervability & AnalysisPrometheusExpert
GrafanaExpert
Grafana LokiExpert
PromtailExpert
Grafana MimirExpert
Grafana TempoExpert
Grafana AgentExpert
OpenTelemetryExpert
ELK StackAdvanced
fluentdAdvanced
JaegerAdvanced
ThanosIntermediate
CortexBeginner
Cloud Native StorageMinioExpert
LonghornBeginner
Rook CephBeginner
Cloud Native NetworkCalicoAdvanced
CiliumAdvanced
Azure CNIAdvanced
Security & ComplianceKeycloakExpert
cert-managerExpert
HashiCorp VaultExpert
External Secrets OperatorExpert
KyvernoBeginner
NotaryBeginner
Backup & RestoreVeleroExpert
GitLab BackupsIntermediate
Container RegistryHarborExpert
DragonflyBeginner
DatabasesPostgres Operator Zalando & CrunchydataAdvanced
SQL Databases (Postgresql, MySql, MSSQL)Advanced
NoSQL Databases (MongoDB)Advanced
K/V Storage (Redis, Cassandra)Advanced
Streaming & MessagingNATSExpert
RabbitMQ (AMQP/MQTT)Advanced
cloudeventsAdvanced
Service Proxy / GatewayNginx (Ingress Controller)Expert
Traefik (Ingress Controller)Expert
Envoy (Ingress Controller)Intermediate
HAProxyIntermediate
KongIntermediate
Access ManagementHashiCorp BoundaryExpert
Service MeshLinkerdExpert
IstioBeginner
ServerlessOpenFaaSAdvanced
KnativeAdvanced
ProgrammingPython 3.x, especially Django FrameworkExpert
GolangAdvanced
Java 11Intermediate
AI / ML ToolsRayIntermediate
MemgraphIntermediate
Other ToolsRenovateExpert
External DNSExpert
K3SExpert
Cloud InitExpert
AnsibleIntermediate

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