Tuğberk Kaan Duman

Engineering Manager & Cloud Architect

Ankara, Türkiye

Engineering manager who builds AI and data platforms on Google Cloud and AWS. Most days are a mix of architecture decisions, code reviews, and mentoring engineers. Background in fintech, telecom, and gaming. Currently exploring agentic AI.

About

I build AI and data platforms, lead teams, and still write code. I like clean documentation and helping engineers grow into people who own their work.

Right now I'm at Oredata as an Engineering Manager. Most days are a mix of architecture decisions, code reviews, and finding ways to make AI useful in real systems.

Most of my work is on Google Cloud and AWS, with Kubernetes tying things together. I've built systems for banks, insurers, telcos, and gaming companies.

Lately I've been working with agentic AI: Gemini, ADK, A2A. It's an interesting problem space and I'm curious to see where it goes.

Experience

  1. Jan 2025 — Present

    Associate Engineering ManagerOREDATA

    Lead engineering teams with design/code reviews, OKRs/KPIs, hiring/onboarding, and cross-team delivery; drive AI-first prototyping into production while adopting agentic AI frameworks.

    • Agentic AI
    • Team Leadership
    • Google Cloud
    • Agile
    • OKRs/KPIs
    • Code Reviews
  2. Sep 2022 — Present

    Senior Software EngineerOREDATA

    Built an enterprise-ready MLOps control plane with multi-tenant governance; hardened K8s/OpenShift for constrained sites; solved Spark/Hadoop/K8s integration; delivered multi-industry systems (Java/Spring, Go, Python, React/Angular/TypeScript) on Google Cloud, automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions plus Trivy/Sonar, and supported delivery with SRS/SDD docs and pre-sales demos.

    • MLOps
    • Kubernetes
    • OpenShift
    • Google Cloud
    • Vertex AI
    • Microservices
    • GitHub Actions
  3. Mar 2022 — Sep 2022

    Full-Stack EngineerGoodgame Studios

    Improved API performance for a 3M+ user platform and shipped features in a serverless CDK stack (400+ Lambdas across SQS/API Gateway/DynamoDB/S3/CloudWatch/PostgreSQL); supported developer integrations, refactored for reliability, and expanded backend routes in Node/TypeScript.

    • AWS CDK
    • Serverless
    • Lambda
    • API Gateway
    • DynamoDB
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
  4. May 2021 — Sep 2022

    Software SpecialistFrumatic

    Designed cost-aware AWS systems operating 150+ Lambdas; integrated AWS APIs; delivered Java/Spring/Python/TypeScript/Node solutions with strong logging; automated provisioning with Jenkins; applied CQRS/Event Sourcing; and improved algorithms with mapping data while facilitating sprint rituals.

    • AWS
    • Lambda
    • CQRS
    • Event Sourcing
    • Java
    • Python
    • Jenkins
  5. Oct 2020 — May 2021

    Software EngineerSimdatix

    Built Node.js/Express backends and AWS serverless (Cognito, AppSync, RDS, SQS), automated API docs/tests, collaborated on UX improvements, and delivered Terraform-based infrastructure modules.

    • AWS Serverless
    • AppSync
    • Cognito
    • Terraform
    • Node.js
    • Express
  6. Dec 2019 — Oct 2020

    Software EngineerUlak Haberlesme

    Delivered Angular 7 + Java services for NAT operations, hardened core services (SSL/DNS/DHCP/SMTP), optimized ISO-based deployments and Docker/K8s CI, cut SD-WAN build times with Jenkins, and fed field feedback into releases.

    • Angular
    • Java
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • CI/CD
    • SD-WAN
    • Linux
  7. Aug 2019 — Dec 2019

    Software EngineerTanitek

    Built facial recognition and TTS with 99.9% uptime; scaled PostgreSQL beyond 400M records; tuned MongoDB and Linux RAID/LVM; deployed VPNs/project systems on ESXi; applied OOP practices and built Qt UIs for operational tools.

    • Python
    • Computer Vision
    • TTS
    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB
    • Qt
    • ESXi
  8. Mar 2019 — Nov 2019

    Android MentorUdacity

    Top 1% Google Nanodegree scholar who mentored 10+ students over 6 months via weekly 1:1s and live AMAs/webinars on Android/Java, providing structured feedback and progress tracking.

    • Android
    • Java
    • Kotlin
    • Mentoring
    • Google Nanodegree

Projects

  • Virtual Try-On (VTON) Platform

    Built an end-to-end VTON platform for generating virtual avatars and garments with Imagen 4, enabling Virtual Try-On via Google's VTO model, and converting results to videos with Veo 3.1; eliminating costly real-life photoshoots through AI-driven avatar consistency.

    • Vertex AI
    • Imagen 4
    • Veo 3.1
    • Cloud Run
    • Pub/Sub
  • MLOps Control Plane

    Extended Kubeflow with multi-tenant isolation, quota management, and governance features; transforming a community MLOps platform into an enterprise-grade control plane for ML workloads.

    • Kubeflow
    • Kubernetes
    • Python
    • Google Cloud
  • Low-Latency Gaming APIs

    Re-architected API paths for a 3M+ player platform; paired a serverless CDK stack with DynamoDB/SQS/API Gateway/400+ Lambdas to boost latency and resilience.

    • AWS
    • Lambda
    • DynamoDB
    • TypeScript
    • API Gateway
  • Real-Time Face Identification System

    Developed a security-focused face identification system that processes both live feeds and recorded footage, storing and matching against 400M+ face embeddings with low-latency lookups.

    • Python
    • OpenCV
    • PostgreSQL
    • Real-time Processing

Skills & Technologies

  • Google Cloud
    • Cloud Run
    • Cloud Functions
    • Vertex AI
    • BigQuery
    • Pub/Sub
    • Cloud Storage
    • CloudSQL
    • Firestore
    • GKE
    • Apigee
    • Cloud Build
    • Artifact Registry
    • Secret Manager
    • IAM
    • Cloud Logging
    • Cloud Monitoring
    • Dataflow
    • Dataproc
    • Cloud Scheduler
    • Cloud Tasks
  • AWS
    • Lambda
    • API Gateway
    • DynamoDB
    • S3
    • SQS
    • SNS
    • SES
    • CDK
    • Cognito
    • AppSync
    • RDS
    • CloudWatch
    • EC2
  • Infrastructure
    • Kubernetes
    • OpenShift
    • Docker
    • Terraform
    • Linux
    • Networking
  • Languages
    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • Python
    • Java
    • Go
    • Rust
    • C++
    • PHP
    • SQL
    • Bash
    • HTML
    • CSS
  • Backend
    • Node.js
    • Bun
    • Deno
    • Express
    • Fastify
    • NestJS
    • Spring Boot
    • FastAPI
    • Flask
    • REST APIs
    • GraphQL
    • gRPC
    • WebSockets
    • Microservices
    • CQRS
    • Event Sourcing
  • Frontend
    • React
    • Next.js
    • Angular
    • Tailwind CSS
  • Data & Databases
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • MariaDB
    • Oracle
    • MongoDB
    • DynamoDB
    • Redis
    • Elasticsearch
    • Kafka
    • RabbitMQ
    • Spark
    • Hadoop
    • Kubeflow
  • DevOps & Observability
    • GitHub Actions
    • Bitbucket Pipelines
    • Jenkins
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • Trivy
    • SonarQube
    • CI/CD
  • AI & Emerging Tech
    • Agentic AI
    • Gemini Enterprise
    • ADK
    • Gemini CLI
    • Imagen
    • Veo
    • Claude Code
    • Codex
    • Cursor
    • Windsurf
    • Antigravity

Certifications

  • 2025

    Google Cloud Partner All-star in AI Innovation

    Google

    Awarded for leveraging AI to fundamentally alter business outcomes, helping customers create new revenue streams and achieve measurable results.

  • 2024

    Professional Cloud Architect

    Google Cloud

    Validates expertise in designing, developing, and managing robust, secure, scalable, and highly available solutions on Google Cloud to drive business objectives.

  • 2024

    Professional Cloud Developer

    Google Cloud

    Demonstrates proficiency in building scalable, highly available cloud-native applications using Google-recommended tools, managed services, and next-generation databases.

  • 2018

    Android Nanodegree

    Udacity / Google

    Top 1% graduate of the inaugural Google Nanodegree Scholarship program.

  • 2019

    Web Development Engineering

    Amazon AWS

    Built and deployed a cloud-powered graduation project on AWS, end to end.

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