Backend · DevOps · Product
Backend & DevOps engineer, technical product manager.
I build the parts of software nobody sees and everybody feels: APIs, pipelines, clusters, and lately the plumbing that lets AI agents run in production without setting it on fire.
This is my little planet. Take a walk around.
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01WORKExperience · Projects · Lab
Where I’ve worked, the products I’ve built, and a lab of small systems you can break right here.
2026 →
Backend services, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters and the observability around them.
2026 →
Roadmap, team rhythm and delivery for a product built across two countries — while still shipping code.
2024 →
Led the build of Postgradia end to end: NestJS API, React web app, React Native mobile app, CI/CD, containers and production monitoring.
2023 – 2025
Fastify and NestJS services for a developer-productivity product built on DORA and SPACE metrics; Kubernetes with Helm, on-prem enterprise installs, Promtail → Loki → Grafana.
2021 – 2022
Backend for a Canadian bank’s web and mobile apps.
2021 – 2022
Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL for product teams.
Before
Three years of quality control and production planning.
Live · 2024 → now
SaaS for education coaches: weekly homework planning, exam tracking and a parent view — API, web, mobile and the platform under them.
Co-founder & CTO — backend & DevOps lead
A coaching platform where coaches, students and parents work from the same weekly plan.
Built with
Delivered · 2026
Catalogue with SEO-aware variant URLs, stock reservations, card payments and an admin with 2FA — API, storefront, admin and infra, alone.
Sole engineer — architecture, backend, storefront, admin, infra
An e-commerce platform for 3D printers, filament, resin and spare parts — built from scratch for a specialist shop.
Built with
Live · 2026
Weekly homework, topic tracking and exam analysis for exam coaches and their students; multi-tenant, on Workers + D1.
Sole engineer — product, backend, frontend, Cloudflare
A coaching panel that replaced a stack of per-grade Excel workbooks — running entirely on Cloudflare’s free tier.
Built with
Live · 2026
Scheduled jobs, idempotent scoring and privacy-first storage inside Reddit’s serverless runtime — shipped to real communities.
Solo — design, code, policies, publishing
Two apps on Reddit’s Developer Platform: a free-to-play hockey prediction game, and a weekly health report with alerts for moderators.
Built with
2026 · Freelance
Bilingual (TR/EN), SEO-first corporate site for a high-precision CNC manufacturer — static HTML on Cloudflare’s free plan.
2026 · Freelance
A dietician’s practice site with a blog — a static Next.js export.
2026 · Freelance
A design system and tool that turns exam tables pasted from Excel into clean, branded charts for a coach’s videos.
Built with
Small interactive explainers — each one a real mechanism from my work, running in your browser.
Auto-remediation simulator
Break a small cluster and watch a remediation controller fix it — until its guardrails decide a human should.
OpenTelemetry GenAI trace viewer
Run an AI agent against flaky tools and see every span, retry and idempotent replay drawn as it happens.
Load-balancing & autoscaling lab
Push traffic at sticky and stateless MCP servers side by side and watch hot spots, scaling and p95 latency diverge.
Rate-limiting lab
Hammer one API through three rate limiters at once and watch a fixed window get gamed, a sliding window hold the line and a token bucket soak up the burst.
Progressive delivery simulator
Roll v2 out to 1% → 5% → 25% → 100% of traffic, slip a bug into it, and watch automated burn-rate analysis halt the rollout before most users notice.
Message-queue & autoscaling lab
Flood a bounded queue with producers, starve or scale its consumers, and watch lag, backpressure, retries, poison messages and the dead-letter queue play out.
Circuit-breaker & retry-storm simulator
Make a downstream API fail and watch naive retries turn it into a storm — then let a circuit breaker go Closed → Open → Half-open and save it.
Consistent-hashing playground
Add and remove cache nodes and count how many keys move under hash % N, a consistent-hash ring and virtual nodes — then watch one celebrity key melt a node anyway.
Kubernetes scheduler simulator
Watch kube-scheduler filter, score and bind pods onto nodes like falling blocks — with taints, affinity, a node dying and the cluster autoscaler to the rescue. Or drag the pods yourself.
02NaylaLabsSince 2026
Where I’ve worked since the start of 2026. I build backend services and look after the DevOps underneath them — pipelines, clusters, and the observability that tells you the truth.
I’m also the Technical Product Manager on a product built between Türkiye and Romania: roadmap, team rhythm, and still some code.
Five people around one long table, a lot of coffee, a box of Lego, and a few cats who think the laptops are heated beds.
03The balloon5 posts
Backend and DevOps infrastructure was designed around a quiet assumption: the caller is a human. AI agents break that in production. A five-part series, one mechanism at a time, every post carrying a number we measured ourselves.
04The bikeRide
Parked by the road. On the planet you can ride it — it comes with a radio.
05The pitchShoot
One ball, one goal. On the planet you can take a shot.
06The roseNorth
One rose, under glass, on a very small planet. (Antoine, thank you.)
07Two volcanoesNorth
Two volcanoes, one active. He sweeps them every morning.
08BaobabsNorth
Baobabs. You have to pull them while they’re small — like tech debt.
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