Hello!

I'm Berzan Kocdag

Software Developer | DevOps & Cloud

About Me

Software Developer based in Cologne, working on full-stack systems, DevOps pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Experienced in building production-grade applications, automating deployment processes, and designing reliable backend systems. Passionate about combining software engineering with real-world workflows, especially in event-tech and AI-driven tools.

JavaScript TypeScript React Node.js Python FastAPI Java PostgreSQL Docker AWS Terraform Kubernetes Jenkins Linux CI/CD

Projects

01

RiderMatch

Full-stack platform for equipment management and AI-based rider matching in the event industry. Built with FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, Celery and Redis. AI-assisted parsing of technical riders using Gemini (~95% accuracy). Custom fuzzy matching and observability stack with Prometheus, Grafana and Loki.

FastAPIReactPostgreSQLDockerRedisAWS
02

Autonomous AI-SRE Agent

Self-healing system for detecting and resolving microservice failures. Detects issues such as memory leaks, slow database responses and storage limit breaches. Automatically restarts containers and resolves incidents using Llama 3.

PythonDockerLinuxAI
03

Platform Lab (AWS / DevOps)

Cloud infrastructure and DevOps playground for production-like environments. Provisioned AWS infrastructure with Terraform and deployed containerized services with CI pipelines and observability stack.

AWSTerraformDockerPostgreSQLCI/CD

Experience

Software Developer

MUSIC STORE Professional GmbH

Dec 2023 - Present
  • Developed full-stack features on Azure-hosted InterShop platform using JavaScript and Java
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, Bash and Linux, reducing manual deployment by ~90%
  • Built visual regression testing system using Docker on production environment
  • Diagnosed production issues using Elasticsearch, Kibana and New Relic
  • Migrated Selenium test suite from v3 to v4 and reduced test error rate from ~12% to ~0.04%

Software Developer

marta GmbH

Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
  • Led full-stack development of multiple platforms using TypeScript, React and Node.js
  • Contributed to AWS-based infrastructure migration
  • Optimized PostgreSQL queries to improve API response times

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science & Engineering

Sabanci University

2023
  • GPA: 3.27 / 4.00
  • Dean's Honor List
  • Minor in Decision and Behavior