Hi, I am Ahmet!

I am a software engineer at Google Cloud, working as a developer advocate who creates tools and designs experiences for developers.

Most of my work is open source, as I create tools and content for the cloud-native technologies and Kubernetes developer communities.

I am currently working on Cloud Run and Kubernetes (GKE).

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• Watch my talks →

If you happen to speak Turkish, check out my YouTube channel, where I explain modern infrastructure and cloud-native technologies.

Recent open source projects

I build open source tools that help hundreds of thousands of developers around the world as part of my job. You can find them on my GitHub profile:

• kubectx^↗ : A popular tool to alternate between Kubernetes clusters.
• krew^↗ : Official plugin manager for kubectl.
• Google Cloud Run Button^↗ : deploy any GitHub repo as a serverless app in one click (co-developed).
• Google microservices-demo^↗ : Google Cloud’s reference app for demonstrating many cloud-native technologies.
• kubectl-tree^↗ : A tool to explore Kubernetes object hierarchy.
• grpc-health-probe^↗ : A gRPC health-check CLI for Kubernetes.

Previous work

I worked at Microsoft Azure from 2012 to 2016. I delivered various open source projects for supporting the Linux ecosystem on Azure compute platform.

During my time at Microsoft, I have started and shipped projects like:

• Azure Go SDK
• Porting of Docker.exe client to Windows
• C#/.NET SDK for Docker
• ASP.NET Official Docker Image
• Azure Container Registry
• docker-machine for Azure

I am also the designer of the Microsoft employee badges in use today.^↗

Contact

Best way to get a hold of me is to DM me on Twitter. If that doesn't work out, email me at address ahmetb@google.com.