HÜSEYİN ERKİN ATAK
B.Sc. Aeronautical Engineer - IT Professional
DETAILS
Atakent/Küçükçekmece, Istanbul,
Turkey
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--DATE / PLACE OF BIRTH
06/05/1977
ISTANBUL, TURKEY
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PROFILE
I am open to new opportunities but especially managing roles.
I am capable of managing multi-disciplinary engineering tasks.
During my past experiences, I believe that I have gained many
capabilities that will help the companies to save money and reduce
costs. Personally I am proactive and fast. Result-oriented and convincing
Samsun
in technical problems.Good top-level meeting management,
NATIONALITY
technical negotiation, system/concept design and effective
Turkish
bargaining are my best characteristics.
DRIVING LICENSE
B
E M P LO Y M E N T H I S T O R Y
Remote SysOps/DevOps Consultant at Several American IT Startups, August
LINKS
Linkedin Profile
SKILLS
Airport Systems
Commercial and Military Aircraft
Systems
IT Skills
IT Project Management
Configuration Management
Test Design
Cloud Computing
Amazon AWS
GCP
Microsoft Azure
DevOps
Linux Administration
LANGUAGES
English
2016 — September 2019
I have 5 years of expertise on AWS services: IAM, VPC, Route 53, EC2, S3. Also competent on GCP and
Azure Platforms.
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis databases that I worked before.
Linux Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat Enterprise Linux, Gentoo, Arch Distros I have expertise on.
Managed 50+ servers in a distributed and highly available critical infrastructure. CentOS / Ubuntu
system administration and performance tuning, Automation using Terraform, Chef and Ansible.
Sentry, Influxdb, Grafana, Graylog Network monitoring systems I used before. Git, Shell, Python
scripting I can do.
Good at monitoring with InfluxDB (TIG Stack), Error Tracking with Sentry.
Strong at Kubernetes, Helm, Istio.
Expertise on high-traffic website management.
Nginx Performance Tuning.
Load testing.
Virtualization Expertise:
PROXMOX
VMmanager
Cloudmin
I am also dealing with cyber-security and penetration testing.
I am good at Project Management with JIRA - Confluence.
Airport Systems Chief Engineer at Polimeks Construction, Istanbul
July 2013 — February 2016
Airside Design Activities - Coordination with The Main designer - NACO
HOBBIES
Movies, Travelling
Conducted Procurement Activities for the following Airport Systems:
Airfield Ground Lighting - SAFEGATE
Baggage Handling System - VANDERLANDE
Security Systems - SMITH
VDGS - FMT
PBB - THYSSEN
GSE - KUNZ - ZIEGLER
Navigation Systems - THALES
Weather Radar - EEC
Fuel Farm - Fuel Hydrant Design and Construction (Coordination of Design
with a German Designer) HANSA- ORDINAT - DEMA, Performed totally
30 million dollars of fuel system equipment procurement and related tenders of construction.
Full Flight Simulator and Cabin Crew Simulator Systems Procurement - Project
Management - CAE - TFC
Maintenance Hangars - Maintenance Softwares
ORAT with MUNICH AIRPORT
BDI - Enginer Ground Run-up
Kidde - Aircraft Fire Trainer
Negotiating with contractors.
RFP Preparation.
Tender management.
Bargaining, Contracting.
On-site Project Execution
Leading airport systems team members.
Working with NACO (main designer) on several design issues. ICAO
compliance. Change management.
Negotiation with the consultant company - AIRPORT CONSULTING GROUP/ ILF and the Owner.
Submission of Designs and getting approval.
Senior Aeronautical Engineer at Several Multinational Companies
March 2001 — March 2013
10 Years of Advanced Project Management Expertise in Large Scale Aviation Projects.
TAI
Worked with Boeing and Thales engineers on aircaft projects held for Turkish Air Force. Controlled
AWACS Aircraft installation. Controlled Installation of Maritime Patrol Aircraft - MELTEM Project.
Participated at change management meetings. Coordinated and participated at Design Reviews of
C-130 Avionics Modernization Project.
TOFAS - FIAT
Particularly was responsible for DOBLO - Palio/Albea cost reduction projects in R&D. Proposed and
completed several body, chasis and powertrain modifications in collaboration with Italy. Carried
out change management. Resolved project quality errors by %100 success without any recurrence.
Also assisted production related quality errors and took preventive actions in terms of production
methods. Coordinated vendors domestic-international and assured project quality.
Turkish Air Force - 2. Air Supply Center
Hands-on expertise in T-41, SF-260, C-130, C-160 and CN-235 cargo aircrafts. Diagnostic testing
of the aircraft systems. Worked on fuselage structural, turbo-prop engines, hydraulic systems,
landing gears, control systems. Assisted modifications, participated at multi-national aircraft
modernization projects. Also worked in avionics component overhaul workshops for a while,
followed up malfunctions of gyroscopes, inertial navigation systems and other avionic systems.
Skills
Power user on Unigraphics PLM.
TeamCenter Expertise.
Metaphase PDM Expertise.
SAP Aerospace Solution Expertise.
ACAD
E D U C AT I O N
İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, İstanbul
September 1995 — June 2000
Aeronautical Engineering (Specialization: Control Systems)
Samsun Anadolu Lisesi, Samsun
September 1987 — June 1995
English Education
COURSES
Quality Management Systems
November 2007 — November 2007
Configuration Management,
November 2007 — November 2007
Project Management,
November 2007 — November 2007
Test Design
November 2007 — November 2007
Statistical Process Control
November 2005 — November 2005
Systems Engineering
November 2007 — November 2007
Active Adaptive Aeroelastic Control, NATO-RTO-METU
November 2003 — November 2003
INTERNSHIPS
Intern at Turkish Airlines, İstanbul
November 1999 — November 1999
Commercial Aircraft Base Maintenance Studies.
D E VO P S C O V E R
Experience In Devops Practice
November 2016 — November 2019
I am a reliable IT System Admin.
I have adapted the DevOps Practice very well and have high collaboration skills.
I offer my clients customer satisfaction tailored with the best IT architecture.
Also I can utilize outstanding relations with all the parties from developers to customers and make
the life easier and profitable for them.
I do not give up till the task is completed successfully.
Please find below some of my system competencies.
These are not all of them as I always learn.
I have started working online for the past 5 years and I love remote working.
I am capable of managing multi-disciplinary engineering tasks.
I am an expert on website design and a real Guru on Linux Servers.
I have 5 years of expertise on AWS services: IAM, VPC, Route 53, EC2, S3.
Also competent on GCP and Azure Platforms.
Kubernetes with Rancher, Helm, Istio
Virtualization Expertises:
Proxmox
Cloudmin
Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, RDS, Amazon S3.
Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis that I worked before.
Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Gentoo, Arch Distros I have expertise.
Automation skills with Terraform, CHEF and Ansible.
Integration with Jenkins.
Monitoring with Sentry, Influxdb, Grafana, Telegraf. (TIG/TICK Stack)
Also competent on ELK Stack.
Shell, Python scripting I can do.
I love Python the most while scripting.
I am also dealing with cyber-security and penetration testing with KALI.
I am good at Project Management with JIRA - Confluence.
Documentation is another topic that I am comfortable.
Good coordination with the developers and CI/CD and SDLC are my advantages while performing a
system administration role.
I also conducted several large scale projects that gave me the potential to overcome any kind of
bottlenecks through the years.
