Alper Léo EKMEKCI – C V

💼 WORK EXPERIENCE

• DevOps Manager
  
  Company : TALAN
  January 2023 – Present
  Geneva / SWITZERLAND
  
  Activities :
  + DevOps Offering Lead / Create new DevOps offerings for the company
  + Develop technical solutions and architectures, as well as DevOps offerings, for a diverse range of clients.
  + Lead the initial implementation of DevOps services for the company based on created offerings
  + Build/Create the DevOps culture for clients
  + Initiate, create and propose DevOps best practices for various clients
  + Define technical and architectural structures according to customer needs
  + Contribute to enhancing development processes and IT tools
  + Facilitate the client’s IT system with recommendations
  + Drive significant changes in processes and mindsets for various clients
  + Organize and lead internal and external DevOps meetings
  + Play a key role in the recruitment process: Collaborate with the sales team and clients to understand and assess their requirements. Conduct technical interviews with candidates to assess their skills
  + Schedule, price and estimate DevOps projects and technical work
  + Research of technical decisions & POCs and propose improvements to clients – Change driver
  + Train and guide people on DevOps technical principles
  + Attend multiple technical conferences
  + Stay abreast of the latest technological developments
  + Organize meetings to share information about unused or underutilized technologies that can help Talan teams work and improve the work environment
  + Documentation
  
  Technical environment : Ansible, Jenkins, Java, Nexus, Artifactory, Azure, AWS, Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, Git, GitLab, Scripting, Bash, Batch, Windows Powershell, Shell, Tomcat, Apache, IIS, jBoss, SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySql, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Angular, Python, C#, C++, C, Perl, Python, Jinja2, AZURE, AWS, JIRA, Confluence, Linux and Windows
  
  
• IT Tooling Manager / DevOps Manager
  
  Company : Union Bancaire Privée
  January 2023 – Present
  Geneva / SWITZERLAND
  
  Activities :
  + Build/Create the DevOps culture
  + Initiate, create and propose DevOps best practices
  + Lead DevOps projects
  + Lead Platform Enhancements and IT tools
  + Define technical and architectural solutions
  + Define IT tools to be used on all the platform
  + Provide proof of concept for new IT tools
  + Ensure production of high quality products that extend product lifecycles and validate correct functionality
  + Facilitate the client’s IT system with recommendations

  + Create workflows to be used by all teams
  + Define the branching modal for the entire bank
  + Maintain contact with the project managers and the various development teams to deliver the solution as quickly as possible
  + Train and guide people on DevOps technical principles
  + Organize and lead internal and external DevOps meetings
  + Documentation
  
  Technical environment : « Sensitive Information »
  
  
• DevOps & Application Expert – DevOps, Cloud & Automation Tech Lead – DevOps Mentor
  
  Company : CAPGEMINI – SOGETI
  September 2019 – December 2023
  Lyon / FRANCE
  
  Activities :
  + Build/Create the DevOps culture for clients
  + Initiate, create and propose DevOps best practices
  + Initiate and animate team/customer meetings
  + Define and implement systems and procedures to ensure service continuity
  + Technical Lead on technologies and concepts: Ansible, Jenkins, Nexus/Artifactory, Automation & PostgreSQL
  + Mentor for DevOps beginners
  + Price & estimate DevOps projects and technical work
  + Define technical and architectural decisions according to customer needs
  + Create and design “Continuous Integration (CI)” and “Continuous Deployment (CD)”: CI/CD for Linux and Windows projects/servers
  + Creation of workflows to be applied by all the teams (Developers, Integration team, etc…) in order to have solid deployment chain
  + Technical referent on 14 applications
  + Management of project teams (Development teams & integration teams) during the absence of project managers
  + Research technical decisions & POCs and propose improvements to customers – change drivers
  + Train people on DevOps technical principles
  + Stay in touch with project managers and various development teams to deliver the solution as quickly as possible
  + Incident handling & resolution
  + Agile: Initiate and participate in daily customer meetings
  + Organize meetings to share information about unused or unmaintained technology that can help our team work and facilitate the working environment
  + Facilitate customer’s IT system with recommendations
  + Documentation
  
  Technical environment : Ansible, Jenkins, Java, Nexus, Artifactory, Azure, AWS, Git, GitLab, Scripting, Bash, Batch, Windows Powershell, Shell, Tomcat, Apache, IIS, jBoss, SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySql, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Angular, Python, C#, C++, C, Perl, Jinja2, MPLABX, cppcheck, xc16, AZURE, AWS, JIRA, Confluence, Linux and Windows

• DevOps & Application Consultant
  
  Company : CAPGEMINI – SOGETI
  March 2019 – September 2019
  Lyon / FRANCE
  
  Activities :
  + Create and design « Continuous Deployment (CD) » for applications on Linux and Windows to ensure the sustainability of the DevOps chain in order to facilitate the deployment chain
  + Participate in the design (architecture) and development of web projects (Java, Nodejs, Angular, Spring, RESTfull, scripting, etc…).
  + Propose and implement DevOps best practices
  + Anticipate to avoid possible problems related to Automated Deployments
  + Participate in the solution analysis
  + Participate in technical design
  + Participate in development and unit testing
  + Present DevOps team/client meetings
  + Respect to internal and external procedures
  + Suggest ideas for improvement
  + Contribute to the integration strategy for Jenkins and Gitlab
  + Continuous Integration (CI)
  + Create / Implenent and Modify web applications
  + Agile: Participate in the daily meeting called DSTUM
  + Documentation
  
  Technical environment : Ansible, Jenkins, Java, Nexus, Git, Tomcat, Apache, IIS, jBoss, SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySql, Docker, Scripting, Bash, Windows Powershell, Shell, NodeJS, npm, Angular, Perl, Jinja2, Nagios, Informatica, Selenium, JIRA, Confluence, Linux and Windows

• Full Stack Developer & Web Designer
  
  Company : PROSPEKTOR
  June 2015 – August 2015
  Lyon / FRANCE
  
  Activities :
  + Management of web applications: From creation to production
  + Conception of web application projects
  + Design/Create/Use/Modify small web applications with different CMS: WordPress, Joomla, Prestashop
  
  Technical environment : Javascript, jQuery, NodeJs, npm, Java, Spring, Rest, RabbitMQ, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Linux and Windows