Summary
Serkan Haytac is a principal DevOps engineer and SRE with 11 years of experience designing and running large-scale, cloud-first infrastructures. He is currently Principal DevOps Engineer & SRE at iHeartMedia in Miami, where he focuses on reliable, scalable production systems at scale. Previously, he led DevOps at Hearst and built end-to-end production environments on AWS, including ECS, RDS, VPCs, and CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Jenkins, Bamboo, and Git-based tools. As Director of Operations/DevOps at Spatially, he implemented centralized logging (ELK), monitoring (Nagios), and automation utilities, and even created portable docker-compose stacks to mirror production for development. His breadth spans Node.js/Express and Angular web apps, Hadoop-based data infrastructure, and hands-on Ops across Linux environments and multiple VPCs. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Florida Gulf Coast University and has a track record of turning complex infrastructure into reliable, auditable systems at scale.
12 years of coding experience