Software Infrastructure Engineer | System Programmer | Performance Engineer. Obsessed with Observability, Instrumentation, and low-level programming. 🤔 Slow thinker. Open Source Enthusiast. Mentor (CNCF LFX, Google Summer of Code, CommunityBridge, GoBridge). Blogger and speaker. Introverted Human (not Cylon, I guess). 😄 Pronouns: He/Him

🔭 Deep in the trenches of Go compile-time magic, runtime eBPF trickery, and tracing wizardry. Keeping a soft spot for profiling while tinkering with Go and its toolchain. 🌱 Still exploring distributed systems, time-series (Prometheus) sorcery, and making machines sing in harmony.

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Learn more at kakkoyun.me/about

From: 12 February 2025 - To: 19 February 2025

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Blog posts

• When Hustle Culture and Personal Values Collide: Lessons from My Startup Journey October 16, 2024

• I left Polar Signals or A new chapter in my professional journey March 18, 2024

• Profiling Python with eBPF: A New Frontier in Performance Analysis February 12, 2024

• Profiling Python and Ruby using eBPF October 4, 2023

• Ice and Fire: How to read icicle and flame graphs March 28, 2023

For more visit kakkoyun.me/posts

Talks

	FOSDEM 2024 - Profiling Python with eBPF: A New Frontier in Performance Analy... February 6, 2024
	Prometheus Updates and Deep Dive - Kemal Akkoyun, Polar Signals & Bryan Boreh... May 1, 2023
	Making Go More Efficient (Go Time Live!) December 7, 2022
	PromCon EU 2022: Best Practices and Pitfalls of Instrumenting Your Cloud-Nati... November 24, 2022
	Achieving Zero-Instrumentation Monitoring with eBPF - Kemal Akkoyun, Polar Si... October 28, 2022