A. E. Cerrah

Istanbul, Türkiye 2026

Ali Erdem
Cerrah

Platform & DevOps Engineer

I design and operate the connective tissue between code and production — infrastructure that is automated, observable, and built to be understood.

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2+ years of experience 30+ enterprise clients 1,000+ tickets resolved

01 / Profile

Systems thinking,
hands-on.

Computer Engineering graduate with 2+ years of hands-on DevOps and platform engineering experience, supporting production infrastructure for 30+ enterprise clients.

I work across Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and automation — from the design of a multi-datacenter environment to the operational detail that makes a production change safe.

Outside client infrastructure, I explore developer infrastructure and game programming with Unity, Godot, and C.

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PRODUCTION SYSTEMSOBSERVABILITYAUTOMATIONDEVELOPER INFRASTRUCTURE

02 / Experience

Work that holds
under pressure.

A short record of production infrastructure, research, and the environments between them.

01

DevOps Engineer

Mono Bilişim

Sep 2024 — Present

  • Delivered platform and DevOps services to 30+ enterprise clients, resolving 1,000+ production infrastructure and application tickets.
  • Designed, deployed, migrated, and maintained critical production infrastructure across multi-datacenter, cloud, bare-metal, and virtualized environments.
  • Built GitLab CI/CD and GitHub pipelines for Kubernetes deployments, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and build optimization.
  • Automated provisioning and operations with Python, Bash, Ansible, AWX, and Jenkins; implemented Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch for observability and APM.
  • Developed AI-assisted infrastructure automation and LLM integration environments with OpenWebUI, LiteLLM, Hindsight, and cloud/local models.
02

Deeptech / AI R&D Intern

ArVis Teknoloji

Jul 2024 — Aug 2024

  • Managed AWS infrastructure supporting AI model training and deployment workflows.
  • Led a robotic dog swarm research project, integrating AI-based coordination algorithms.
  • Developed image processing models using FPGA-based deep differentiable logic networks.

03 / Selected projects

Useful things,
made real.

Open-source tools, self-hosted infrastructure, and personal experiments that keep the feedback loop honest.

01 / CLI TOOLING

Grafana CLI

A command-line tool leveraging Grafana APIs to simplify platform administration and extend the capabilities of the official CLI.

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02 / OBSERVABILITY

Monokit

A collection of monitoring and alerting tools for clearer infrastructure visibility and service health monitoring.

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03 / NETWORK AUTOMATION

Caddy IP List

A Caddy module that periodically retrieves IP lists to automate configuration maintenance.

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04 / AUDIT TOOLING

Jumpserver Grafana Dashboard

A Grafana audit dashboard and supporting automation scripts for JumpServer environments.

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05 / SELF-HOSTED

Home Lab

A self-hosted Proxmox cluster built and maintained with four ThinkCentre M720q systems for virtualization and container workloads.

Private system / personal infrastructure

06 / PERSONAL PROJECTS

Game Development & Engine Programming

2D gameplay experiments in Unity and Godot, original art assets, and a basic game engine built from scratch in C.

Unity / Godot / C

04 / Technical range

The stack is a
means, not a badge.

A working vocabulary shaped by production environments, research, and the habit of learning the layer beneath the tool.

01

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS · GCP · Linux · Proxmox · KVM · Bare-Metal Infrastructure · Virtualization

02

Containers & Orchestration

Kubernetes · RKE2 · Docker · Rancher · LXC

03

CI/CD & Infrastructure Automation

GitLab CI/CD · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · Ansible · AWX · Bash · Python

04

Observability & APM

Grafana · Prometheus · Loki · Tempo · Mimir · OpenTelemetry · OpenSearch · ELK Stack

05

Networking & Security

HAProxy · Nginx · Traefik · Caddy · OPNsense · pfSense · Keycloak · JumpServer · Vault · OpenBao

06

Databases & Messaging

PostgreSQL · MariaDB · MongoDB · Redis · Kafka · RabbitMQ

07

AI Infrastructure & Automation

OpenWebUI · LiteLLM · Hindsight · Cloud LLMs · Local LLMs · AI-Assisted Operations

08

Programming & Scripting

Go · Python · C/C++ · Bash

05 / Learning & community

Still close to
the source.

Education

Üsküdar University

Computer Engineering
2022 — 2026 · GPA 3.66 / 4.00

Coursework

Cisco CCNAv7: Networking; Switching, Routing & Wireless; Enterprise Security & Automation.

LKD: eBPF, Network Management, Data Visualization.

Community

STEM Projects Club
Board Member · 2024 — 2026

Turkish Linux Users Association
Member · 2024 — Present

Languages

Turkish · Native
English · B2

06 / Contact

Let’s make the
invisible work.

Follow the work, explore the repositories, or connect on LinkedIn for platform and infrastructure conversations.

GitHubgithub.com/acerrah ↗ LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/acerrah ↗