$ kubectl describe engineer/burak-faruk-sahin
Name: Burak Faruk Şahin
Namespace: bursa-tr
Role: Senior DevSecOps & Platform Engineer
Founder: brf.sh — solo DevSecOps consultancy
Status: Running (uptime: 12y, restarts: 0, OOMKills: 0)
Strategy: Stable > Fast
Currently: Shipped filex.sh — open-source file manager (MIT)
Cooking runr.sh — open-source serverless + AI on Knative
Philosophy: "I'm not a developer. I'm an artist who designs the
cleanest mechanic that fits the deadline and ships it."filex (released · MIT)Creator & sole engineer |
Self-hosted file manager that embeds anywhere — single Go binary, Vue/React/web-component UI, 5 storage drivers, real-time collab, RBAC, native multi-tenancy and a built-in MCP server for AI agents. filex.sh · GitHub · live demo |
| BRF Tech DevSecOps consultancy |
Kubernetes · CI/CD · Terraform · observability · security hardening · AI/agent integration. 25-area service catalog with tiered pricing. |
runr.sh (pre-release)Open-source serverless + AI |
Knative-based platform: CaaS / FaaS / XaaS + native AI module — AaaS (agents), AgentFlow (multi-agent DAGs), MaaS (GPU-pooled OpenAI-compatible inference). |
| Self-hosted lab Production-grade homelab |
K8s 1.24 + Knative + Traefik + Longhorn + Kata. Running Outline · AppFlowy · Stalwart · Nextcloud · Element/Matrix · plugNmeet · Sentry · Zot · LLM gateway · filex. |
| Where | What | Scale & Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Monotech | iGaming DevSecOps, GKE migration | 100k–500k users · ~50% infra cost cut · 20–30 node autoscale |
| Parkos | Cross-cloud K8s + ArgoCD + Terraform | 7M+ customers · 270+ airports · 14 countries · acquired by CAVU/MAG (2024) |
| Aloware | Fair-queue messaging + Lambda migration | LA contact-center SaaS · 3M SMS · per-tenant fairness |
| C-Level | Acting CTO — Koton QCommerce, PaketTaksi OYM | 50M+ nightly fuel records reconciled in 1–3 minutes |
| Erstream | CCNMS network management system | Productized end-to-end · sold to Turkcell, Türk Telekom, +1 operator |
Full breakdown on LinkedIn or my detailed CV.
- 🐧 Linux kernel patches — ThinkBook ACPI fix · Lenovo fingerprint sensor driver fix
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runr.sh— open-source serverless + AI platform (sole engineer) - 🔌
mcp-outline— Model Context Protocol server for Outline - 🎧
bsv3-sidetone— reverse-engineered Razer BlackShark V3 Pro USB control transfers (Python · Typer · hidapi · pystray) — flip headset sidetone without Razer Synapse - 📂
filex— self-hosted file manager that embeds anywhere (creator & sole engineer) — Go + Vue/React/web-component, built-in MCP server, MIT · filex.sh · live demo - 📦
notification-options— Laravel package · fluent options builder for notifications - 🤝 Merged PRs across the Laravel / Filament ecosystem —
lara-zeus/bolt(Filament form builder) ·calebporzio/sushi(Laravel array-Eloquent) ·JetBrains/swot(academic-email validation — added a Turkish university)
📋 Full stack list (click to expand)
Containers & runtime — Docker · Podman · Kubernetes · Knative · Kata Containers · Firecracker · gVisor · containerd · Docker Compose
Edge / proxy — Caddy · Traefik · Nginx · HAProxy · Cloudflare (Tunnel · Workers · R2 · Zero Trust · WARP · Turnstile)
IaC / GitOps — Helm · Terraform · Ansible · Pulumi · ArgoCD · Flux · Crossplane
CI/CD — GitLab CI · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · CircleCI · Drone
Observability — Prometheus · Grafana · Loki · Tempo · Mimir · OpenTelemetry · Jaeger · Sentry · ELK / OpenSearch · Uptime Kuma
Security & secrets — HashiCorp Vault · Consul · External Secrets Operator · Passbolt · Trivy · Falco · cert-manager · Keycloak · Pritunl
Cloud / infra — AWS · GCP (GKE) · Azure · Hetzner · DigitalOcean · OVH · S3-compatible (MinIO · R2) · Longhorn · MooseFS
Storage / streaming — PostgreSQL · MySQL · MariaDB · MongoDB · Redis · Cassandra · ClickHouse · SQLite · DynamoDB · Elasticsearch · Kafka · RabbitMQ · NATS
Backend langs — PHP · TypeScript / Node.js · Deno · Bun · Python · Go · Bash · Java · Kotlin · Swift · C/C++ · Rust (learning) · UE5 C++ (hobby)
Frameworks — Laravel (5 → 12) · Filament v5 · Symfony · Lumen · Spring · NestJS · FastAPI · Flask · Django · Vue · Nuxt · React · Next.js · Svelte · Angular · Tauri · Electron · Ionic / Capacitor · Flutter
Frontend / UI — Tailwind · SCSS · Bootstrap · Vite · Webpack · Three.js · GSAP
AI / LLM / agents — Ollama · vLLM · OpenAI-compatible inference · MCP (Model Context Protocol) · ACP · RAG · vector DBs (pgvector · Qdrant) · multi-agent orchestration · Claude Code · Claude Agent SDK · LangChain · n8n
Game / 3D — Unreal Engine 5 · Unity · Godot · Blender
Desktop / mobile — JetBrains suite (IntelliJ · WebStorm · PHPStorm · GoLand · PyCharm · CLion · DataGrip · Rider) · Android Studio · Xcode · Figma · ML toolkits (PyTorch · TensorFlow · OpenCV · Jupyter)
| 💼 Hire / engage BRF Tech | brf.sh · burak@brf.sh |
| in/buhack | |
| 🌐 Personal site | burak.sh |
"I'm not a developer. I'm an artist who designs the best mechanic possible for the deadline.
An athlete who doesn't try to run faster — tries to run stable."