About
I'm Mert Saygi — a DevOps and Platform engineer based in Amsterdam.
I grew up in Turkey, studied computer engineering, and spent the first years of my career working on web applications and backend systems. Over time I gravitated toward the infrastructure layer: how software actually runs, scales, and breaks under load.
That pull eventually led me to international work and, eventually, to the Netherlands.
What I Work On
My day-to-day lives at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and the developer experience. In practice that means:
- Designing and running AWS environments — EKS, RDS, S3, networking, cost optimization
- Building GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Flux
- Writing infrastructure-as-code in Terraform and Helm
- Setting up observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, tracing pipelines
- CI/CD pipelines that get out of the developer's way
- Helping teams migrate off hand-crafted servers onto modern, reproducible infrastructure
I have worked in high-traffic consumer environments (tens of millions of users) and regulated sectors (fintech, banking), so I understand both the scaling concerns and the compliance constraints.
Career Highlights
Getir — one of the fastest-growing on-demand delivery platforms in the world. Worked on platform engineering during a period of rapid international expansion. High-traffic, always-on systems where reliability is non-negotiable.
Grid Dynamics — consulting work across multiple clients in retail and e-commerce. Hands-on with cloud migrations, containerization, and building engineering practices from scratch in organizations that needed them.
ThreatFabric — a fintech security company based in Amsterdam. Worked on cloud infrastructure in a regulated environment where security posture and audit trails matter as much as uptime.
MSP / Consulting work — helped smaller teams punch above their weight: setting up proper infra, automating the boring stuff, and making deployments boring (in the good way).
Right Now
I am focusing on high-leverage DevOps and platform work — the kind that makes entire engineering teams faster. That usually means:
- Cloud infrastructure design and implementation (AWS-first)
- Kubernetes platform engineering
- Developer tooling and internal platforms
- Migrating legacy infrastructure to modern, maintainable patterns
If your team ships software but the infrastructure is still a source of anxiety, let's talk.