Data engineer in Istanbul. I build streaming pipelines and the secure, multi-tenant analytics layer on top of them.
Now: Data Engineer at Mediastream AG, working on ComplyGuard (compliance analytics for regulated iGaming). Kafka and PyFlink streams, Airflow and Spark on Kubernetes, ClickHouse with row-level security, FastAPI and SSO. That code is private, so I describe the work on my site.
Studying: Executive MBA at Istanbul Technical University.
Links: akarce.github.io · CV (PDF) · LinkedIn · Medium · YouTube
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| real-time-data-pipeline-kafka-mongo-elasticsearch-pyspark | Streams Yelp reviews through Kafka and Spark, labels sentiment with DistilBERT, shows it in Kibana. 82-min build video | Kafka, Spark, MongoDB, Elasticsearch |
| e2e-structured-streaming | Airflow to Kafka to Spark Structured Streaming to Cassandra, all in Docker Compose. Article | Airflow, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra |
| elk-stack-mastery | Multi-node Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana with hot, cold and frozen lifecycle tiers. Video | Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana |
| RedditDataPipeline | Reddit API into MinIO and Hive through NiFi and Airflow, queried with Trino, shown in Superset. Article | NiFi, Airflow, Hive, Trino |
- ELK Stack Mastery: Building a Scalable Log Management System
- Data Engineering with Reddit API, Airflow, Hive, NiFi, Trino and Superset (Part 1)
- Data Engineering with Reddit API, Airflow, Hive, NiFi, Trino and Superset (Part 2)
- End to End Data Engineering Project: Airflow, Kafka, Cassandra, MongoDB, Docker, EmailOperator…
- End-to-End Realtime Streaming Data Engineering Project using Python, Docker, Airflow, Spark, Kafka…




