Aydin Kocas
IT Security
Big data engineer
Integration architect
Cloud architect
About Me
Data architect

I am a freelancer focusing on data
Starting with my education as an IT specialist, I have in total about 20 years of experience with consulting international key players in the IT, Telecommunications, Pharma/Life Science and Insurance industries.
- Age39
- ResidenceDuesseldorf/Germany
- e-mailinfo@aydinkocas.de
- Phone+49 151 1000 9876
- FreelanceFreelance available
Services
IT Security
During my time at Telekom Security I was the responsible project security manager for securing the business critical middleware platforms of the Deutsche Telekom connecting more than thousand interfaces across europe including B2B partners.
Additionally, being part of their honeypot team, I developed the new security dashboard, which is used in the Telekom Security SOC.
Integration
I have about 10 years knowledge in messaging, integration and API topics including web services, REST integration, EAI and service oriented architecture (SOA).
Expert knowledge in TLS and PKI topics.
Big data
Expert knowledge in Apache Spark & Apache Spark Structured Streaming, Apache Kafka and the ELK stack (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana) including data science aspects like applying machine learning algorithms for predictions.
Consulting
Contact me for consulting or training lessons.
Clients
Resume
20 Years of Experience
Honors & Awards
May 2018
Top Performance Club
T-Systems International GmbHT-Systems honored the new launch of the security dashboard.
March 2018
Security Innovation Award (team award)
Telekom SecuritySeptember 2017
Winner team CTF contest
Telekom SecurityExperience (starting from 2006)
September 2019 - today
Senior Integration Architect
Freelancer
- Focussing on IT Security, Enterprise Integration and Big Data.
April 2016 – September 2019
Senior Security Expert
T-Systems International GmbH
- Project Security Manager for various DTAG integration platforms (e.g. SOA Middleware, API-Gateway, B2B Components)
- Member of the DTAG honeypot team.
- Lead development of the "Sicherheitstacho" based on React.js and WebGL.
- Setup of a big data environment PoC with Elasticsearch, Apache Spark and Apache Kafka.
October 2008 – April 2016
ICT Business Analyst
T-Systems International GmbH
- Provide technical consultancy, analysis and support services for a variety of business projects utilizing the central SOA infrastructure of Deutsche Telekom.
- Design and development of specific integration components.
- Maintenance of existing integration modules
- Support of test, problem and incident activities
July 2008 – September 2008
Project
Deutsche Post World NetThe projects FigaRo ROMO (Rollout Management Office) and FigaRo Support had the objective to replace all frontend systems in the offices of Deutsche Post with new hardware including peripherals. Specific activities:
- Development of an intelligent XML comparison tool for tracking anomalies in software package profiles.
- Dynamic statistics and graphical reports. Extension of installation routines.
September 2006 – March 2008
Billing Specialist - Technical Lead
Tele2- Lead development for reporting tools.
- Lead developer of an international invoicing portal (ETL).
- Optimization and automation of organizational as well as technological processes.
- Interface between the business side and international customers.
Focus and Key Competencies
Network and Data Security / Privacy
Enterprise Architecture
Big data analytics
Cloud technologies
Skills & Technologies (extract)
IT Security
Requirements, encryption, authentication, hardening, SIEM, pentesting
Big data
Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, ELK (elasticsearch/logstash/kibana)
Integration
Event streaming (Apache Kafka/Confluent Platform), Messaging (JMS, IBM MQ, Tibco), Datapower, REST, API, Microservices
Software development
Java, Python, R, node.js, React, bash, perl, R, WebGL, SQL, Elasticsearch
DevOps
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Github, GitLab
Machine learning
Spark ML, Scikit-learn
Portfolio
My Best Works
Contact
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