Burak TUNGUT

Burak Tungut

Founder & External CTO | Principal Architect
Former Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect & App Innovation Lead

I design, build, and operate production-grade distributed systems across
cloud, hybrid, and fully on-prem environments.

I work with organizations as an External CTO / Architecture Board —
owning architectural decisions, delivery outcomes, and operational reliability,
not just providing advice or slideware.

Focus Areas

Distributed systems & platform architecture
Kubernetes & internal developer platforms (IDP)
DevOps & GitOps operating models
Observability-first design (logs, metrics, traces, SLO/SLI, error budgets)
Legacy modernization without disrupting production
Vendor-agnostic, hybrid and on-prem architectures

I am the founder of TungOps, a production-first engineering consultancy that designs, builds, and operates mission-critical systems using a Design–Build–Run delivery model.

Executive Resume

For a detailed overview of my background, experience, and leadership roles:

Full CV – External CTO / Principal Architect (PDF)
https://buraktungut.com/Burak_Tungut_External_CTO_Resume.pdf

Background (Short)

Founder & External CTO — TungOps (2025–Present)
Acting as External CTO / Principal Architect for enterprises facing modernization, scalability, reliability, and operational challenges.
Cloud Solution Architect & App Innovation Lead — Microsoft (2018–2025)
Led large-scale enterprise modernization programs across Türkiye, the Middle East, and Europe; worked directly with CTOs, CIOs, and executive leadership teams on platform strategy, operating models, and architectural governance.

A key principle throughout my career:
Cloud adoption is never a prerequisite for good architecture.
Production-grade standards can — and should — exist on-prem.

Open Source & Engineering Projects

These are production-oriented tools, built to solve real operational problems in enterprise environments.

Azure DevOps Agent on Kubernetes

A production-focused approach for creating and managing Azure DevOps agents on Kubernetes.

Helm-based deployments with Dockerized agents
Designed for scalable CI/CD execution platforms
Used in both cloud and on-prem Kubernetes clusters

https://github.com/btungut/azure-devops-agent-on-kubernetes

Fluentd Kube Elastic

A Fluentd implementation for collecting and forwarding Kubernetes logs to Elasticsearch, supporting both plain text and JSON formats.

Handles mixed log formats reliably
Designed for real-world container logging scenarios

https://github.com/btungut/fluentd-kube-elastic

Kubeconfig Merge

A lightweight CLI tool written in Go to merge multiple Kubernetes kubeconfig files into a single, clean configuration.

Prevents context conflicts
Ideal for multi-cluster and platform teams

https://github.com/btungut/kubeconfig-merge

Kubernetes Azure Key Vault Secret Operator

A minimal, platform-agnostic Kubernetes operator that syncs secrets from Azure Key Vault into Kubernetes clusters.

No CSI driver
No Azure Arc dependency
Simple Service Principal–based authentication

https://github.com/btungut/kubernetes-azure-keyvault-secret-operator

Author & Community

Author of “Algoritma ve Programlama Mantığı”
(23rd edition — one of Turkey’s best-selling books on algorithms)
Author of “ASP.NET Web API ve Mimari Özellikleri”
Frequent speaker on technology leadership, distributed systems, DevOps, and platform engineering

“Excellent architecture is not a cloud feature.
It is an engineering and leadership discipline.”