About

Reasoned Cloud-Native Open-Source Software Infrastructure Engineer. Site Reliability Engineer. Observability, Monitoring and Performance Engineering. Mentor. Speaker. Blogger. Introverted Human (not Cylon, but who knows?). Open Source Software Developer. Thanos Maintainer. Prometheus client_golang maintainer. CNCF and Prometheus Ecosystem Contributor. Gopher. Rustecean.

Learning (by building) about Distributed Systems, Databases and Operating Systems. Focused on Observability, Reliability, Instrumentation, System Programming and Performance.

For the past few years, I’ve built Linux observability tools for software and reliability engineers. I’m deeply invested in profiling, eBPF, performance, time-series and columnar databases. And currently, hyper-focused on building an eBPF-based whole-system performance profiler.

In my previous life, I was born on the Planet of Lisp (Racket/Scheme). I had been a rebel Pythonista, a Java brewer, a paranoid Android, a C# reshaper, an iOS NSHipster, a well-grounded Rubyist, and an Elixir alchemist. Still, I ever lived in the Cloud and evermore been on-call since the beginning of my career (circa 2012).

You may find me in other mediums under the handle kakkoyun (except Twitter, kkakkoyun).

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In my free time, I’m a tinker (I open things up, check what’s inside and fix them), a bookworm, a dog whisperer, a mechanical keyboard and lego builder, a single malt taster and a coffee drinker in training (peer pressure).

I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy literature, board games, and programming (fun things aside from work-related topics: hardware, functional programming etc.). I like travelling and cooking good vegan and vegetarian food. Furthermore, I always try to learn a new language; I dream of being a proper polyglot. Last but not least, I want to retire early and spend most of my time outside (maybe Over landing with a Land Rover? Who knows?)

I currently live with my beloved significant other and dog (the one you see as my avatar) in Berlin, Germany.

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It’s 202x, so just visit: linkedin.com/in/kakkoyun

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If you wish to reach out and chit-chat, you may email me: kakkoyun_at_gmail_dot_com

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