Oren Sultan
Hands-on  ·  Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer
PROFILE SUMMARY

Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer with 10+ years across enterprise networking and cloud-native infrastructure. Deliver production platforms with GitOps, Kubernetes, and IaC across AWS, GCP, and Azure — cloud and on-prem. Intelligence unit graduate. Work close to the product, get into the details that matter, and build things that hold up in production. Hard challenges are most welcome.

WORK EXPERIENCE
2021 –
Present
Tikal Knowledge Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer · Fullstack as a Service

Boutique fullstack-as-a-service consultancy — embedded with customer teams end-to-end. Internal: DevOps Group Routine Leader (2026–), Roadmap Circle Manager (2025–2026) — quarterly Tech Radar topics, tech talks, sessions.

  • Sentra (2026–) — DSPM startup. Led EU (eu-central-1) rollout; least-privilege DB RFC (25+ services → per-service roles on Atlas & RDS). Pulumi · EKS · ArgoCD · MongoDB Atlas.
  • LinearB (2026–) — Hardened on-prem agent for enterprise K8s/OpenShift: non-root SCCs, deploy-time TLS trust, GitOps-safe Helm values.
  • Terra Security (2025–2026) — AI pentesting platform. Monolithic Pulumi installers → modular ArgoCD GitOps; Langfuse LLM tracing; org-wide Coralogix.
  • ZoomInfo (2024–2025) — Refactored change-management-v2 (Backstage/Jira/GitHub); Jenkins → GitHub Actions migration across Gradle/Node/Nx/Python/Go.
  • Beti Tech (2023–2024) — Con-tech startup. ArgoCD/GitOps; Terraform/Terragrunt; Crossplane, Karpenter, Tailscale; JumpCloud ↔ AWS SSO.
  • Capitolis (2022–2023) — Fin-services SaaS. Umbrella Helm across R&D; Terraform-driven ArgoCD; ApplicationSet GitOps.
  • GigaSpaces (2022) — Migrated UI Jenkins → JCasC + shared library; Nexus artifacts; umbrella Helm on ArgoCD.
  • Hallo Digital (2022) — Full CI/CD; Terraform/Terragrunt; EKS; ArgoCD.
2016 –
2021
Motorola Solutions Integration Engineer

Integration engineering for Motorola's worldwide Wi-Fi network — switching, internal routing, TCP/IP troubleshooting across enterprise WAN/WLAN deployments. Built monitoring and control dashboards on Nsight, SolarWinds, LibreNMS. Automated daily network operations in Python and shell.

PROJECTS
K-Agent — AI-powered SRE agent. FastAPI + LiteLLM automates brownfield infra provisioning via context-aware, zero-conflict Merge Requests. Python · LiteLLM · Redis · Kubernetes · Crossplane · GitLab/GitHub APIs
Change Management v2 (ZoomInfo) — TypeScript on GCP Cloud Functions; gates releases by service-maturity via API integrations with Backstage, Slack, Jira, and a GitHub App. Led OneBranch across mono/multi-repos. TypeScript · Node.js · GCP Cloud Functions · GitHub App · Backstage · Jira · Slack
Developer Environment as Code — One-command macOS setup: 70+ dev tools, shells, and cloud CLIs, IaC-style. Taskfile · Bash · Homebrew · cloud CLIs · kubectl · helm · k9s
Enterprise Data-Platform IAM — Fine-grained BigQuery IAM, group-based access, SA key management via AWS Secrets Manager. BigQuery IAM · GCP SAs · External Secrets Operator · Cross-cloud secrets
EDUCATION
2013 – 2017
B.Sc. Electrical & Communications Engineering SCE — Shamoon College of Engineering
2020 – 2026
DevOps Experts Academy · Tikal DevOps Bootcamp · Tikal Python · Tikal TechLead (AI-driven, ongoing)