Hi, I am Ahmet!

I am a software engineer working at Google Cloud, designing tools and experiences around container-based platforms.

Over the course of my career, I have developed notable open source tools with strong adoption in the cloud-native infrastructure space, around Kubernetes and serverless containers.

I am currently working on the Skaffold project —the Makefile for the cloud-native world. Prior to that, I worked on the 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 in simpler words.

Latest articles

06/2021 Did we market Knative wrong?→
06/2021 Serving gRPC+HTTP from a Go app on Cloud Run (and elsewhere)→
04/2021 My review of the System Design book→
04/2021 Deploying to Cloud Run with Go→
04/2021 Introducing runsd: Service discovery for Cloud Run→
04/2021 First look at GKE Autopilot→
03/2021 Building a high-scale chat server on Cloud Run→
02/2021 WebSockets best practices for Cloud Run
02/2021 Global services with Cloud Run (Terraform edition)→
02/2021 Building container images in Go→

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 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.
runsd ^NEW! : Missing service discovery layer for Google Cloud Run.
Google Cloud Run Button : click-to-deploy any GitHub repository to GCP.

From GitHub to Twitter @ahmetb is who you should be following for all things Kubernetes and Google Cloud. Ahmet is extra dope and someone I respect deeply for his engineering and human skills. https://t.co/FV5lPRW8q1
— Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) March 6, 2019

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:

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.