Volkan Özçelik

Hello, I'm Volkan 👋.

I'm a developer, streamer, creator, connector, and writer. I like tinkering with systems, and I’m not afraid to break stuff.

I live in the sunny Santa Clara, California where the weather is beautiful, and you never run out of things to do.

I’m a big believer in asking questions—It’s the curiosity that matters.

Currently, I am a Lead Principal Engineer at VMware Cloud Foundation.

Blog

• I blog at Zero to Hero.
• vcf.wtf: VCF Where to Focus is my personal knowledge graph about VMware Cloud Foundation.

Zero Trust Community

• I am fairly active on SPIFFE Slack,
• And, I am also a chair of the SPIFFE Steering Committee.

Open Source

• I am the lead architect of SPIKE.
• I also contribute to various projects under the SPIFFE umbrella.

In addition to SPIKE and SPIFFE, some of my projects are in the zerotohero-dev GitHub org. Though, they are mostly idle.

Streams

• I am a co-host of a Turkish tech podcast (Vadideki Geyik).
• I also screencast on Twitch as VadidekiVolkan whenever I can.

Social

• I am @volkan.io on BlueSky.
• I am volkanozcelik on LinkedIn.
• I mentor turtles at Kampus.
• You can email me at [email protected],
  but I'm typically too busy to respond.