Ozcan Kara

As an Individual Contributor (L4), I am shaping my career as a backend developer and cloud-focused engineer, aiming to specialize in high-concurrency, real-time platforms. My primary focus is ensuring exactly-once balance updates without loss or duplication, designing reliable distributed systems, and implementing event-driven architectures.

Throughout my journey, I have been developing microservice-based applications with Go and Java, while designing distributed infrastructures using Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and container technologies. I have hands-on experience across multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, GCP, Huawei, and Alibaba Cloud, and strengthen my expertise through various international certifications.

🔧 My key technical focus areas include:

Cloud-Native Architecture & Distributed Systems

Vertical & Horizontal Scaling, Concurrency, Parallelism

Message Brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, IaC)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab, ArgoCD, Spinnaker)

Serverless Framework, Container Orchestration

Monitoring & Observability (New Relic, Grafana,CloudWatch)

Security & IAM (least-privilege policies, VPC, secure networking)

Unit Testing / Container Testing / Integration Testing

🚀 In my projects, I emphasize clean code principles, secure and observable cloud architectures, automation, and reliability optimization. I also keep up with the latest technology trends and actively contribute to the community by publishing technical content on Medium, Substack, and Dev.to.

🎯 My goal is to advance my expertise in backend development, DevOps practices, and cloud platforms at the L4 level, building high-performance solutions for large-scale distributed systems and driving technical leadership in organizational transformation initiatives.

https://medium.com/@ozcankaraa

https://github.com/ozcankaraa

https://github.com/ozcan-kara