Andrew Goktepe is an experienced hands-on leader with a passion for server infrastructure engineering that meets stringent user expectations. He has over 8 years of experience in managing SRE/DevOps teams for startups and large organizations, creating intuitive workflows for developers, and improving software quality and productivity. Andrew's expertise spans across various fields, including AWS, Azure, Terraform, Chef, Python, Linux, and API infrastructure. He has deployed and managed various services and tools in AWS and on-premise, such as Kafka, Consul, MongoDB, Splunk, Nagios, ELK, HAProxy, Drupal, Sensu, and more.

Andrew has worked as the Sr. Manager, Site Reliability Engineering at LinkedIn and has previously held management and technical roles at various companies such as Savant Systems, Yahoo, Barnes & Noble, Oracle, and BT Global Services. He has also spent more than 10 years supporting developer toolchains, build & release, and CI/CD pipelines, with a strong emphasis on performance testing and tuning.

Overall, Andrew Goktepe is a skilled and experienced SRE/DevOps expert with a strong background in infrastructure engineering that goes beyond his education in Computer Science. His broad range of skills and expertise ranging from cloud infrastructure to developer toolchains to CI/CD pipelines helps him keep up with the latest technologies and strategies to make development teams more productive while improving the reliability and performance of server infrastructure environments.