Hello World - Issue #1
Greetings to you from the `developer-guy` from the first newsletter I planned to make a long time ago 🫶
Greetings to you from the `developer-guy` from the first newsletter I planned to make a long time ago 🫶
This first issue is going to be a quick one about introducing myself and the things to be in this newsletter series 👋
Let me introduce myself first. My real name is Batuhan Apaydın, but if you know me as a developer-guy, that's ok 🙈 because I've used this name for my social accounts such as GitHub, Twitter, etc. I started my career as a Java Backend Engineer. Still, my interest always has been working as closely as possible with Go, containers, Kubernetes, and other Cloud-native technologies because if there is something that I like most is working with the most recent technologies, this is why I call myself technology enthusiastic. I'm also an organizer of the two most popular organizations in Turkey: DevOpsTr and Cloud Native Türkiye & Kubernetes.
In addition to my career, I started contributing to the open-source one year ago, which changed my life. Working with open source helped make my work more visible to the community. I mainly contributed to several official CNCF projects, such as Flux, Kyverno, ko, Falco, etc., by writing code, sometimes improving the documentation, and sometimes writing a good blog post. But, for this one year, on the other hand, my interest was very much in software supply chain security; this is why I started contributing to the Sigstore tools, especially cosign. I noticed that people who might want to learn more about the updates in the software supply chain security space need help because so many things are happening simultaneously.
Accordingly, I helped many organizations' projects to make them aware of the risks associated with the SSCS and integrated them with Sigstore tools to mitigate them; this is why the Sigstore community gave me the "Best Sigstore Evangelist" award in the SigstoreCon happened this year:
https://twitter.com/projectsigstore/status/1585005073519636481
Also, for people who might not be aware of the community, I created for Software Supply Chain Security to share the knowledge around the SSCS, which is the hottest topic. You will find many great blogs, news, videos, etc., there. Please do not forget to join if you haven't joined yet 💫
https://twitter.com/i/communities/1590611905651040256
I plan to make these newsletters mostly related to software supply chain security. Still, of course, there will be lots of other great stuff related to the containers, other newsletters that I found helpful, Kubernetes, Cloud-native, etc. Also, because I got involved in so many communities during my career journey, I can benefit from that to make you aware of all the recent updates on the topics I mentioned.
To keep in touch, you can reach out to me from the following accounts:
• Twitter: @developerguyba
• Mastodon: @developerguy@hachyderm.io
• GitHub: developer-guy
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bthnapydin/
That's all for today, and please do not forget to subscribe to say tuned with the upcoming newsletters! 🙋🏻♂️