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Alena Erdem

Helping companies to design and build scalable & reliable systems.

Distributed Systems Backend DevOps/SRE Leadership
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I’m a Software Engineer focusing on backend and distributed systems and driving open source products development. With a passion for tackling difficult engineering problems and having a pragmatic and practical way of solving them. I've been helping companies to build and deliver scalable, secure and resilient systems across e-commerce, web security and enterprise products. Driven by curiosity I value collaboration and teamwork, focusing on progress, measurable and reliable results and believe that the best work is always a shared learning experience.I enjoy helping teams grow and succeed. Looking forward to joining a tech team in a flexible, fiendly and collaborative environment.

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I never limit myself with certain technologies and believe that learning is a necessary part of progress. Here is the tech stack I was working with:

Programming

Go| Java| C#| SQL| GraphQL| REST| Grpc| OAuth

Cloud_DevOps_Infrastructure

AWS| Docker| Kubernethes| Terraform| Git| Bash Scripting| CI/CD

Databases

Postgres| DynamoDB| MSSQL| Oracle| MySQL| DB2

Architecture_Practices

Microservices| Event Sourcing| Domain Driven Design| SRE| Monolithic Architecture| Agile/Scrum/Kanban AI driven development using Copilot/Claude

Observability_Monitoring

Grafana| Prometheus| Loki| Tempo| ElasticSearch| OpenTelemetry

Messaging_Events

RabbitMQ| Kafka| SNS
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> Web_Security & Distributed_Systems

Designed distributed web attack surface discovery engines and established SRE practices that slashed system incidents by 80%. Executed zero-downtime migrations across 50+ databases to enable dynamic scaling, and built comprehensive observability tooling to monitor large-scale Kafka event streams.

> B2B_E-Commerce & FinTech

Engineered a robust B2B sales platform featuring complex ERP integrations and full-stack enterprise capabilities. Designed and developed a modular, multi-bank payment gateway to streamline and secure financial transactions.

> Enterprise_Software & CRM

Modernized legacy enterprise systems by leading major framework migrations and building scalable RESTful services. Delivered comprehensive marketing CRM modules, automated event-scheduling platforms, and internal media portals that unified external e-commerce feeds.

> Engineering_Leadership

Managed and mentored cross-functional engineering teams, actively driving recruitment, interviewing, and strategic team formation. Fostered a culture of continuous technical growth by running targeted knowledge-sharing sessions for backend developers.

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Self Employed

Mar 2026 - Now
> Freelancer, Open Source Contributor

Leading an open source game authentication server project development. Server provides the most modern ways of secure authentication for multi million gamers and supports 2FA, sessions management, and audit.

Driving development of an open-source, multiplatform application designed for tracking job hunting pipelines.

Detectify AB

EM | Sr. DevOps/SRE | Sr. Software Backend Engineer
Oct 2019 - Nov 2024
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Led SRE initiatives and executed zero-downtime database migrations, successfully decreasing system incidents by 80%.

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Designed distributed web attack surface discovery systems and scaled cross-functional engineering teams.

EspadaMotors Ltd

Software Architect
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
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