Hi, I'm Zidan.

Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience building reliable backend systems and cloud infrastructure. Hands-on across the fullstack from protocol level IoT data ingestion and event-driven messaging to CI/CD automation. Currently at VIVAVIS Water.

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experience

2022 now

VIVAVIS Water

Istanbul, Türkiye

Software Engineer

GoNodeJSTimescaleDBK8sGCPJenkinsgRPCwebsocketRabbitMQReactLeafletApache Echarts

Built a scalable IoT data ingestion platform in Go and Node.js, processing high volume telemetry from various IoT devices.
Developed a realtime monitoring and analytics application for water and electricity distribution system networks.
Wrote production parsers for ModBus and M-Bus industrial protocols, ensuring unified and accurate ingestion across device types.
Integrated TimescaleDB for timeseries data, improving query performance and analytics speed platform-wide.
Migrated VM-based deployments to Kubernetes on GKE, achieving near-zero downtime and faster release cycles.
Set up and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments and eliminating manual release overhead.

2021

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAŞ)

Istanbul, Türkiye

Software Developer Intern

ReactNodeJSPostgres

Implemented an RBAC system to secure critical admin workflows, providing granular access control for users and operators.
Designed the database schema and migration strategy, ensuring data integrity across iterative feature releases.

2017

Bandung Institute of Technology

Bandung, Indonesia

Network Engineer Intern

Debian 8MikroTik

Configured LAN infrastructure including routing and firewall rules with MikroTik and Debian 8, maintaining stable and secure network operations.
Managed Wi-Fi authentication via MikroTik and provided technical support to campus users.

projects

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Homelab

Bare-metal Kubernetes cluster and self-hosted LLM on Raspberry Pi.

k3sRaspberry PiTraefikGiteaPi-holeLocal LLM

Built a 3-node bare-metal k3s cluster (1 control plane + 2 workers) running staging workloads.
Self-hosted CI/CD via Gitea Actions for automated build and deploy pipelines.
Configured Traefik ingress with Let's Encrypt TLS alongside Pi-hole local DNS.
Managed hostname-based routing across the LAN with no external DNS dependency.
Runs a dedicated local LLM inference node for hands-on work with open-source models.

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bootcamp

N11 TalentHub Bootcamp 2026

End-to-end e-commerce microservices platform with saga-based order lifecycle.

Java 21Spring Boot 3.5Spring CloudRabbitMQPostgreSQLRedisKeycloakTanStack StartKubernetesJenkins

Designed and built an end-to-end e-commerce backend split into 10 Spring Boot microservices (gateway, config, product, cart, order, payment, user, notification, shipping worker, plus Eureka/Config infra).
Implemented order lifecycle as a RabbitMQ saga choreography covering checkout, iyzipay payment, shipping, delivery, returns and refunds with compensating transitions.
Integrated Keycloak (OAuth2 / JWT) at the Spring Cloud Gateway for authentication and per-service header injection.
Built a TanStack Start (React + Nitro SSR) storefront with Tailwind v4 / shadcn and SSE-based realtime notifications.

education

Sakarya University 2024

B.Sc. Computer Engineering Sakarya, Türkiye

Daarut Tauhiid Vocational High School 2018

Computer and Network Engineering Bandung, Indonesia

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