Kemal Akkoyun

Kemal Akkoyun is a Senior Software Engineer at Polar Signals. Kemal has been with the company for 1 year and 1 month, and is responsible for developing, shaping the path and building the tools to collect profiling data from Linux boxes using eBPF for the services we built. Kemal is also helping to build a large scale, real-time distributed database to store observability signals and infrastructure around it. Kemal is operating the platform that we build with edge SRE standards by also being actively on-call. Training, and mentoring novice engineers.

Prior to joining Polar Signals, Kemal worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat for 2 years, and at Meltwater for 2 years and 1 month. Before that, they were with Vispera Information Technologies for 2 years 10 months, where they held the position of Technical Team Lead, and Software Engineer. Kemal also worked at Fazlamesai for 3 years 8 months as a Software Engineer.

Kemal started their career as a Student Assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University, where they worked for 2 years 9 months.

Kemal Akkoyun is a speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020.

Kemal Akkoyun is a Senior Software Engineer who has worked with the following colleagues: Javier Honduvilla Coto, Vaishali Thakkar, Orawee Jah Junlaphan, Sumera Priyadarsini, Monica Wojciechowski, Manoj Vivek, Kemal Akkoyun, Thor Hansen, Matthias Loibl, and Yomi Eluwande.