I build and operate cloud platforms, infrastructure and delivery systems that help engineering teams ship software safely and reliably.
Twice now I've joined as the first DevOps engineer and built the practice — and the team — from scratch.
My focus is on:
- 🏗️ Cloud & Platform Engineering
- ☁️ AWS architecture & migration
- 🧱 Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- 🚀 CI/CD & developer platforms
- 📦 Containers & orchestration
- 🔭 Observability & reliability
- 🔐 Security, IAM & compliance
- 🤖 Automation with Python, Bash & AI agents
I enjoy turning manual infrastructure work into repeatable, automated platforms.
I build internal tooling that lets engineers drive infrastructure through agents instead of runbooks:
- MCP servers exposing observability, databases, CMS and code-quality systems to LLM agents safely
- Agent plugins & skills encoding team runbooks — incident triage, PR review, scoped DB access, environment setup — as reusable workflows
- Durable AI workflows — event-driven, idempotent, retryable background jobs with full execution history
- Guardrails first — scoped credentials, read-only by default, audit trails on every agent action
The interesting problem isn't getting an agent to answer; it's giving it just enough access to be useful and not one permission more.
AWS · ECS · EKS · Fargate · Lambda · RDS · Aurora PostgreSQL · MWAA · VPC · IAM · S3 · Multi-Account AWS · OCI
Terraform · Terraform Modules · Remote State · GitOps · Helm · Istio · Infrastructure Automation
GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Jenkins · Self-Hosted Runners · OIDC (keyless AWS auth) · Docker · Container Registries · Renovate
OpenTelemetry · Grafana Cloud · Prometheus · Loki · Tempo · AWS OpenSearch · Zabbix · PagerDuty · Metrics · Logs · Traces
Least-Privilege IAM · Secrets Management (SOPS) · SAST / Quality Gates · Dependency & CVE Management · Supply-Chain Security · Auth0 / OIDC · ISO 27001 · HIPAA · Incident Response · Disaster Recovery
Python · Bash · TypeScript · Node.js / NestJS · Django · PostgreSQL · Inngest · MCP · Linux · Nix
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer — Lepaya · Amsterdam, NL
08/2022 → Present
Senior DevOps Engineer — data.ai (formerly App Annie) · Remote
07/2021 → 08/2022
DevOps Engineer — LeQuest · Rotterdam, NL
01/2019 → 06/2021
Team Lead / Python Web Engineer — Istanbul Bilgi University · Istanbul, TR
02/2018 → 01/2019
Earlier — Glacial Multimedia · Bytes & Clouds · Freelance
06/2009 → 02/2018
Automate > Document > Observe > Secure > Improve
I prefer infrastructure that is:
- Reproducible — everything possible should be defined as code
- Observable — if we can't see it, we can't operate it
- Secure by default — least privilege and automated controls
- Developer-friendly — platforms should remove friction, not create it
- Boring in production — complexity belongs in the engineering process, not at 03:00
- Continuously improving — small, measurable improvements compound
- 🇳🇱 Based in Doesburg, the Netherlands
- 🐍 Python developer at heart
- ☁️ AWS has been part of my journey since 2012 · DevOps since 2019
- 🤖 Building AI agents that operate infrastructure
- ♟️ Member of the Doesborghsche Schaakgenootschap — chess every Monday evening
- 🏓 Table tennis enthusiast
- 🤿 CMAS / PADI / SSI diver and licensed captain
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ozeryusuf
Email: realsby@gmail.com