👋 Hi, I’m Egemen
I am a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Booking.com in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 where I focus on improving the reliability, scalability, and automation of large-scale distributed systems within the accommodations business unit, the core of Booking.com’s platform.
Currently, I am working on designing and building an automated deployment platform that integrates service-level objective (SLO) checks and business metric validation into the release process. This work has helped teams deploy faster and safer while significantly reducing operational overhead. I also act as a first responder and incident lead for high-severity production issues (P1s), coordinating response efforts and leading data-driven post-incident reviews to enhance overall reliability.
Before joining Booking.com, I worked at Criteo in Paris 🇫🇷, where I managed geo-distributed Kafka clusters . This system formed the backbone of Criteo’s global real-time data platform, handling massive-scale data streams and powering business-critical analytics across multiple regions.
I hold a PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin where my research, conducted with IBM Research Ireland, focused on fault tolerance and performance in data-intensive distributed systems such as HDFS.
My background combines academic research with hands-on systems engineering. I am passionate about building resilient, observable, and self-healing infrastructure, and I enjoy mentoring engineers and sharing lessons from reliability engineering at scale.
Previously
Senior SRECriteo, Paris 🇫🇷
(PhD) Comp ScienceUCD Dublin, Dublin 🇮🇪
Software Engineer Arcelik, Istanbul 🇹🇷
(Bsc) Mathematical Engr YildizTech, Istanbul 🇹🇷
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f, l = "egemen","ciritoglu" print(f"{f}@{l}.net")