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I'm an enthusiastic and hardworking engineer with a proven ability to stay calm under pressure. I maintain a flexible approach to work and a strong commitment to achieving set goals. I also value interpersonal skills and thrive as a collaborative team player who works well with diverse cultures at all levels. I'm always seeking new opportunities to tackle challenges, help others, and make a positive difference by delivering high-quality work and exceeding expectations.…I'm an enthusiastic and hardworking engineer with a proven ability to stay calm under pressure. I maintain a flexible approach to work and a strong commitment to achieving set goals. I also value interpersonal skills and thrive as a collaborative team player who works well with diverse cultures at all levels. I'm always seeking new opportunities to tackle challenges, help others, and make a positive difference by delivering high-quality work and exceeding expectations.

Mesut Aslan

AI Engineer, DevOps Developer, Back-End Developer

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I'm an enthusiastic and hardworking engineer with a proven ability to stay calm under pressure. I maintain a flexible approach to work and a strong commitment to achieving set goals. I also value interpersonal skills and thrive as a collaborative team player who works well with diverse cultures at all levels. I'm always seeking new opportunities to tackle challenges, help others, and make a positive difference by delivering high-quality work and exceeding expectations.…I'm an enthusiastic and hardworking engineer with a proven ability to stay calm under pressure. I maintain a flexible approach to work and a strong commitment to achieving set goals. I also value interpersonal skills and thrive as a collaborative team player who works well with diverse cultures at all levels. I'm always seeking new opportunities to tackle challenges, help others, and make a positive difference by delivering high-quality work and exceeding expectations.

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I’m an enthusiastic and hardworking engineer with a proven ability to stay calm under pressure. I maintain a flexible approach to work and a strong commitment to achieving set goals.

I also value interpersonal skills and thrive as a collaborative team player who works well with diverse cultures at all levels. I’m always seeking new opportunities to tackle challenges, help others, and make a positive difference by delivering high-quality work and exceeding expectations.

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Work Experience

Elasticsearch Consultant at Global Media

August 31, 2025 - October 22, 2025

Designed and implemented a new search platform for Global Player behind a GraphQL server to index and search podcasts, episodes, articles, shows, and videos. Designed mappings and settings for Elasticsearch/OpenSearch cluster on AWS. Built a RESTful API with FastAPI to support search across media assets. Implemented end-to-end search architecture with high availability and monitoring dashboards in Grafana. Achieved near-zero downtime migration planning and execution.

Elasticsearch Observability Engineer at Advanzia Bank S.A.

September 1, 2024 - October 22, 2025

Migrated production and test environments for Elasticsearch/OpenSearch; performed migrations from Elasticsearch 7.17 to 8.15.x; migrated fleet servers, Elasticsearch agents, Logstash, Beats; redesigned dashboards; ensured monitoring and reliability for TB-scale data; implemented OpenTelemetry traces; established alerting and disaster recovery planning.

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Consultant (Contractor) at Advanzia Bank S.A.

December 31, 2024 - October 22, 2025

Short-term engagement to migrate production and test environments from Elasticsearch 7.17 to 8.15.13; upgraded Fleet servers, Logstash, Beats; introduced vector search capabilities with OpenSearch; created dashboards and provided mentoring on best practices; ensured near zero downtime.

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Consultant at NEXT

August 31, 2022 - October 22, 2025

Designed scalable search architecture across multi-environment production, staging, and development; optimized indexing pipelines; built dashboards with Kibana/Grafana; ingested data from multiple sources and implemented ILM/shard optimization.

Senior Software Engineer (Contractor) at Drvn Solutions

March 31, 2022 - October 22, 2025

Improved new features and managed data retention on streaming projects; ingested data from Kafka topics and indexed into Elasticsearch; exposed Restful APIs for data access and search functionality.

Data Engineer - Elasticsearch Consultant (Contractor) at Somo Global

December 31, 2021 - October 22, 2025

Built an ETL pipeline that crawled HTML/XML resources and indexed them into Elasticsearch via SQS, DynamoDB, and S3. Created a RESTful API with Python Flask for search. Reduced response time from around 3000 ms to 30-80 ms. Implemented zero-downtime reindexing and monitored data flows.

Software Development / Elasticsearch Consultant (Contractor) at ThoughtRiver

July 31, 2021 - October 22, 2025

Developed new features on APIs and implemented log monitoring dashboards using Kibana. Worked across multiple projects to enhance ES-based search capabilities; contributed to multiple client deliverables.

Lead Software Engineer & DW Admin at Zingat

August 31, 2018 - October 22, 2025

Led a team of seven developers; built ETL pipelines and managed release cycles; ensured data quality and governance for the data warehouse; oversaw architecture and delivery.

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer & DW Admin at Modanisa

January 31, 2016 - October 22, 2025

Led backend development for an e-commerce platform; designed and maintained data pipelines; implemented dashboards and monitoring for operations.

Lead Software Engineer at Kayastone Limited

May 31, 2014 - October 22, 2025

Implemented front-end and middleware components for an e-commerce experience; built dashboards for finance and operations.

Senior Software Engineer at Travelodge

January 31, 2013 - October 22, 2025

Backend improvements for the e-commerce and CMS stack; implemented logging and monitoring improvements; contributed to system reliability and performance.

Freelance IT Consultant at Babil

January 1, 2010 - October 22, 2025

Developed CRM solutions and backend software for clients; responsible for delivering software solutions and client communication.

Software Developer at AC/DC Electronics

January 1, 2008 - October 22, 2025

Managed and developed software for internal and external clients; maintained websites and backend systems.