Hi, I am Ahmet!
I am a software engineer at
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).
If you happen to speak Turkish, check out my YouTube channel, where I explain modern infrastructure and cloud-native technologies.
Latest articles
- 01/2021 WebSockets and HTTP/2 for Cloud Run
- 01/2021 Implementing leader election on Google Cloud
- 12/2020 New Terraform module for Cloud Run load balacing
- 11/2020 Building a GCP load balancer with Terraform
- 11/2020 grpc_health_probe reaches 1.8M downloads
- 11/2020 Custom domains for Google Container Registry
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 : click-to-deploy any GitHub repository to GCP.
- Google microservices-demo : Official reference app for demonstrating many cloud-native technologies, also the top-starred GCP repository.
- grpc-health-probe : A gRPC health-check CLI for Kubernetes.
- kubectl-tree : A tool to explore Kubernetes object hierarchy.
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
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.