Bora Tanrikulu
Systems / Observability Engineer
I work on observability tooling in Go, with a focus on eBPF and Linux systems programming. Currently building monitoring agents that collect infrastructure and application data across Linux and Windows.
Focus Areas
Systems: eBPF, Linux networking, runtime monitoring and enforcement
Observability: Agent development, metrics/logs/traces collection, OpenTelemetry
Infrastructure: Go, Kubernetes, Docker, distributed systems, CI/CD
Employment
Systems / Observability Engineer, Agents Team at Sematext
Feb 2023 - Present, Remote (HQ: New York)
- Developing an eBPF-based observability agent in Go for infrastructure and application monitoring.
- Added OpenTelemetry support for traces, metrics, and logs via OTLP.
- Extended the agent from Linux-only to Windows, adding full infrastructure monitoring support.
- Maintaining agent packaging (Linux/Windows), Docker images, Helm charts, and release pipelines.
Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Team at Acronis
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022, Remote (HQ: Switzerland)
- Migrated REST APIs from Python to Go for the account management and authn/authz platform.
- Maintained high-traffic API endpoints handling millions of daily requests.
- Developed internal CLI tooling and Ansible playbooks for DC registration operations.
Software Engineer, Crawling Team at Wope
Aug 2020 - July 2021, Remote (Turkiye)
- Designed and built a crawler processing ~10M pages/day using Go, Kafka, and Knative.
- Created CI/CD pipelines deploying 13 applications for a team of 7 engineers.
Software Engineer at Lab2023
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019, On-Site (Turkiye)
Designed and developed Ruby on Rails web services.
Projects
See /projects.
Community
Taught GNU/Linux, networking, and security courses at Pamukkale University, Izmir Science High School, and Free Software Camp. See Journey.
Education
Computer Engineering, Pamukkale University
Bachelor of Science, 2017 - 2022