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Mehmet Baris Kalkar

Software Engineer / Builder

Hey, I am Barış 👋

An engineer/geek from Turkey who is currently working and living in Berlin.

This website will serve as a place to share what I am learning and working on. I also want to take more notes and have a deeper understanding of those topics while writing about them.

Things I am interested nowadays

  • Observability / OpenTelemetry and OpenMetrics
  • Infrastructure as Code / Terraform
  • Distributed Systems
  • Serverless
  • Jamstack
  • Minimal and fast systems

Programming languages I use the most

  • Java
  • Python
  • Typescript

Things I am passionate about outside of work

  • Video games, specifically roguelike and metroidvanias
  • Synthwave & Outrun
  • Snowboarding
  • Fantasy Novels
  • Traveling
  • Minimalism