Kemal Akkoyun

Frontend Developer

https://talent.gravityer.com/kemal-akkoyun

SWE. Observability. Performance. Reliability. Tracing, metrics, profiling and eBPF. Helping to maintain projects in @prometheus and @open-telemetry

DataDog

Key Strengths

Extensive experience with infrastructure as code and observability tools (Terraform, Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry).
Proficiency in multiple programming languages including Go, Rust, C++, Python, Shell, and Zig.
Strong background in system configuration and deployment (Kubernetes, Dockerfile, Makefiles).
Demonstrated ability to work on complex, low-level system projects (eBPF profiler).

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's projects are heavily backend, infrastructure, and low-level systems focused, which does not directly align with a 'Frontend Developer' target role. While demonstrating strong technical capabilities, the project diversity does not show direct frontend experience, which might impact cultural fit for a dedicated frontend team. The single listed experience as 'Frontend Developer' at DataDog is current but lacks details on responsibilities or technologies used.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. The candidate's project descriptions indicate a strong technical focus and ability to work on complex, self-directed projects.

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Projects

opentelemetry-sdk

July 31, 2024 – Present

An implementation of @open-telemetry SDK in @ziglang

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py-perf

July 20, 2023 – October 5, 2023

A Proof-of-concept, low-overhead, sampling CPU profiler for Python implemented using eBPF.

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the-zen-of-prometheus

June 28, 2020 – Present

The Zen of Prometheus

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api

October 15, 2019 – Present

The Observatorium API

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thanos-receive-controller

June 19, 2019 – Present

Kubernetes controller to automatically configure Thanos receive hashrings

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observatorium

June 7, 2019 – April 16, 2025

This repository contains the deployment configurations for the Observatorium instances

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kube-thanos

June 4, 2019 – Present

Kubernetes specific configuration for deploying Thanos.

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terraform-openvpn

March 2, 2018 – March 4, 2018

You can have your pay as you go personal VPN in minutes! And you can destroy your environment whenever you want!

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kube-prometheus

October 24, 2016 – Present

Use Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes and applications running on Kubernetes

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linux.files

November 14, 2012 – December 7, 2013

Configuration Files of my System

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Key Strengths

Extensive experience with infrastructure as code and observability tools (Terraform, Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry).
Proficiency in multiple programming languages including Go, Rust, C++, Python, Shell, and Zig.
Strong background in system configuration and deployment (Kubernetes, Dockerfile, Makefiles).
Demonstrated ability to work on complex, low-level system projects (eBPF profiler).

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. The candidate's project descriptions indicate a strong technical focus and ability to work on complex, self-directed projects.

Kemal Akkoyun

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

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Projects

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit