Aytunc Tunay

Infrastructure Operator - GDC (Google Distributed Cloud) air-gapped @ World Wide Technology

About

Multidisciplinary engineer with dual B.Sc. degrees and an M.Sc. in Informatics from the Technical University of Munich. Balanced academic excellence with professional American football and long-term volunteer work focused on children and social impact. Currently working as a DevOps & Web3 Engineer at Alterscope, contributing to zero-knowledge-powered DeFi infrastructure in a fast-scaling startup environment. Known for wearing multiple hats across DevOps, smart contract development, and cloud infrastructure.

Country

Germany

City

Munich

Industry

Higher Education

Skill

Kubernetes

Experience

Infrastructure Operator - GDC (Google Distributed Cloud) air-gapped

World Wide Technology

2025-9 - Present · 1 yr

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

DevOps & Web3 Engineer

Alterscope

2022-9 - 2025-9 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

- Bootstrapped and scaled Kubernetes infrastructure across up to 3 clusters and 20+ AWS instances, hosting 200+ pods on Linux-based systems. Set up and maintained highly available stateful services including MongoDB, Kafka, and Redis. Used EKS, Rancher, Ansible, and GitHub Actions CI/CD, with VPN-secured ingress via Twingate, Let’s Encrypt, and Route53. - Extensive Linux system administration and troubleshooting experience, including managing production Kubernetes clusters, debugging containerized workloads, and optimizing node- and network-level performance. - Deployed and managed blockchain nodes (Ethereum, Optimism, Arbitrum, Stellar, Starknet). - Implemented full-stack monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo for metrics, logs, and tracing. - Developed Autonolas agents and smart contracts for decentralized coordination and token-based interactions. - Built internal tools for persistent volume resizing, failed pod cleanup, custom orchestration, and Discord-integrated health monitoring. - Explored and tested emerging Web3 technologies and decentralized infrastructure protocols.

Full-stack Developer

Alterscope

2022-5 - 2022-9 · 5 mos

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

- Developed web applications using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js). - Collaborated on interdisciplinary projects with designers and product teams.

Cloud Engineer

urgrow

2021-9 - 2022-5 · 9 mos

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

- Maintained and monitored cloud infrastructure using Rancher, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Jenkins.

Junior Application Engineer

IBTECH A.S.

2020-2 - 2020-7 · 6 mos

- Developed features for the mobile app “Mono,” launched in September 2020. - Used Flutter and Dart for front-end; .NET and C\# for back-end development. - Worked with technologies such as Azure, Microservices, Docker, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. - Also completed a pre-employment internship from Jan. to Feb. 2020.

Summer Intern

Airties

2019-7 - 2019-7 · 1 mo

Izmir, Turkey

- Participated in the SummerSeed 2019 program. - Worked on embedded systems and wireless networking solutions.

Intern

Ford Otosan

2016-8 - 2016-9 · 2 mos

Kocaeli, Turkey

- Developed a MATLAB-based tool to optimize production workflows, theoretically enabling 1–1.5 additional vehicles to be produced per day.

Education

Technical University of Munich

Computer Science

2021 - 2024 · 3 yrs

Thesis: Privacy-Preserving Dataset Analysis through Zero-Knowledge Methods – Built a system allowing users to prove total distance from private GPS data using zero-knowledge proofs, without revealing the actual routes.