Engineering, research and system design initiatives focused on distributed systems, orchestration, software sustainability and scalable operational infrastructure.
Ongoing Initiatives
Progressive Development — Book Series
A long-term writing and research initiative exploring the systemic, organizational and cognitive consequences of modern software development practices.
The series focuses on how modern engineering ecosystems increasingly optimize for speed, automation and continuous delivery, while gradually introducing new forms of operational fragility, cognitive overload and organizational instability.
Rather than approaching software development purely as a technical discipline, Progressive Development examines software systems as socio-technical environments shaped by human reasoning, market pressure, organizational behavior and automation economics.
The initiative explores topics including:
- cognitive collapse under excessive automation
- velocity versus operational awareness
- organizational scaling pressure
- software sustainability
- socio-technical system dynamics
- automation without reasoning
- operational fragility in modern engineering ecosystems
Book I — The Foundations
The first volume focuses on the transformation of software development over the last decade and examines how Agile, DevOps, CI/CD and AI-assisted development reshaped both engineering organizations and human decision-making processes.
Status: In Progress
Organization: Independent
Authors: Berk Kibarer and Tunç Kavaklıoğlu
Distributed & Dynamically Orchestrated Test Automation Platform
Enterprise-scale orchestration platform designed for workload-aware regression execution across Kubernetes-based distributed infrastructure.
Highlights
- Adoption across 84 engineering teams
- Dynamic orchestration architecture
- Workload-aware scaling
- Distributed execution infrastructure
- Playwright migration architecture
- Distributed observability systems
Status: Active Development
Organization: Intertech
Technologies
Kubernetes · Distributed Systems · Playwright · Jenkins · Platform Engineering
Deterministic Exploratory Systems for Web Platforms
Research and engineering initiative focused on deterministic exploratory analysis for large-scale web systems.
Areas of exploration:
- Deterministic traversal
- State-aware execution
- Reproducible exploration
- Adaptive system discovery
- Execution observability
Status: Active Research & Development
Organization: Independent
Link: Deterministic Exploratory Systems for Web Platforms
Published Work
Operationalizing Percentile-Based Release Forecasting Without Story Points: An Industrial Experience Report
Industrial experience report proposing percentile-based release forecasting approaches using probabilistic delivery models instead of traditional story-point estimation systems.
Topics
- Flow metrics
- Forecasting models
- Delivery predictability
- Planning economics
Status: Published
Organization: Independent
Link: Research Directory || Zenodo
Completed Enterprise Platforms
Friday v2.0
Centralized quality management and automation platform focused on sustainable test management, live execution infrastructure and distributed automation systems.
Technical Areas
- Microservice architecture
- Real device integrations
- Live execution systems
- Browser/mobile automation
- Operational observability
Status: Completed
Organization: Turkcell
Link: Friday v2.0 — Rethinking Centralized Test Automation Platforms at Enterprise Scale