About

I own Azure platforms end to end, and design what comes next.

I work where Azure architecture meets day-to-day enterprise operations: long-term ownership of a bank's Azure platform, and short, focused design engagements for customers with a hard problem and a deadline. Whatever the engagement, the bar is the same: secure, compliant, and built to last.

Current role

Cloud Solutions ArchitectD724 IT Services, a Datamarket company · Jul 2026 – Present

Enterprise architecture and technical leadership

  • Serving as the architectural authority for a major European bank's Azure environment, holding full technical accountability for all aspects of the platform including cost governance, security posture, networking, compute, backup, and disaster recovery.
  • Defining the strategic cloud roadmap by surfacing Well-Architected gaps and operational risks, guiding customer stakeholders through the necessary technical remediations.
  • Structuring the client relationship around strategic partnership, proposing architectures and gaining alignment rather than simply executing against a fixed scope.

Post-sales delivery and engineering excellence

  • Spearheading hands-on post-sales implementation and solution design across highly regulated industries, including automotive, banking, and insurance.
  • Architecting purpose-built Azure environments by deeply evaluating critical business drivers, including data residency, business continuity, and regulatory compliance.
  • Conducting cost analysis and optimization engagements, designing data-backed realignments that achieve an average 40% reduction in monthly Azure consumption costs.
  • Engineering custom automation solutions to eliminate operational bottlenecks and reduce manual overhead.

Pre-sales advisory and solution strategy

  • Driving the technical go-to-market strategy for D724 and Datamarket by defining the Azure solution portfolio, guiding the commercial teams on which architectural packages and managed services to offer customers.
  • Partnering with commercial teams to assess prospective environments, identifying security risks early to build technically sound, low-friction proposals.
  • Positioning specialized architectural and optimization packages as strategic entry points, opening pathways to broader managed services and architectural modernization engagements.

Before that at D724

Cloud Technologies ConsultantDec 2025 – Jul 2026
  • Took over the end-to-end Azure platform of a major European bank under a managed services agreement, with full technical ownership of cost governance, security posture, networking, compute and IaC delivery through bespoke Bicep templates.
  • Drove continuous platform optimization through structured analysis of cost, resource governance and Azure best practices, keeping the environment compliant and audit-ready.
  • Led short-cycle solution design and advisory engagements for EA and CSP customers across automotive, food and beverage, banking and insurance: cost optimization, network infrastructure, communication services and content delivery.
  • Worked with the Datamarket pre-sales team on technically complex opportunities: scoping, effort estimation and solution positioning.

Selected write-ups from this work

Career

  1. Jul 2026 – Present
    Cloud Solutions ArchitectD724 IT ServicesAzure platform architecture, DR, security posture
  2. Dec 2025 – Jul 2026
    Cloud Technologies ConsultantD724 IT ServicesBank platform ownership, advisory engagements
  3. Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
    Cloud EngineerGunvor GroupAzure and Entra ID, Bicep IaC
  4. Dec 2022 – Dec 2023
    System EngineerGunvor GroupGlobal virtualization, hybrid cloud
  5. Sep 2021 – Nov 2022
    System EngineerTrendyol Group300+ branches, global infrastructure
  6. Jul 2020 – Sep 2021
    IT SpecialistEczacıbaşı TopluluğuEnterprise IT support
  7. Feb 2019 – Jul 2020
    IT SpecialistÇelebi Aviation HoldingAviation IT operations

How I work

Most of my week sits somewhere between keeping a platform healthy and shaping where it goes next. This is roughly where each kind of work lands.

Platform operationsStrategic advisory
Azure platform management
Tenant and subscription governance
Cost governance and FinOps
Identity and access architecture
Landing zone architecture
Security and compliance posture
Enterprise architecture alignment
Strategic cloud advisory

Cloud-first and automated-always. Bicep and PowerShell keep enterprise environments scalable, secure and compliant by design. Anything repetitive, error-prone or tedious gets automated, so the time goes into architecture that solves the customer's actual problem.