Personal Authority & Background•İzmir, Türkiye

Celal Anak

Product Builder · Software Developer · IT Leader

Uniting over nine years of enterprise IT infrastructure leadership with the discipline of modern software engineering and independent AI product development.

Professional Narrative

Professional Narrative & Engineering Discipline

Throughout my career across organizations of varying scale and regulatory rigor—including ASSERSAN, SOCAR Türkiye, and Üstay İnşaat—I have engineered and operated Active Directory architectures, endpoint data protection (DLP), network segmentation, and cloud migration initiatives. The infrastructure discipline developed in high-stakes environments prioritizes systems that are not merely functional, but fully auditable, secure, and resilient.

I channel this deterministic systems perspective directly into independent digital product engineering. In building Revalune, I juxtaposed classical cultural source texts with analytical depth psychology models, backing the system with type-safe TypeScript architectures, strict schema validation, and Row-Level Security isolation for a production-grade live platform.

My engineering philosophy centers on simplifying complex systems, uncompromisingly protecting enterprise data, and delivering durable digital products that offer genuine utility to users.

Current Role: IT Manager

Enterprise IT Management — ASSERSAN

IT Manager

ASSERSAN — İzmir, Türkiye

2025 – Present

Directing enterprise IT infrastructure, centralized identity governance, endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP), network traffic security, and cloud migration architecture at ASSERSAN.

Verified Responsibilities:

  • •Active Directory domain setup, hierarchical OU architecture, and centralized GPO governance
  • •KVKK-aligned sensitive data filtering and endpoint hardening via ManageEngine Endpoint Central DLP
  • •Centralized directory modification tracking and audit logging via ADAudit Plus
  • •Enterprise network segmentation and Wireshark traffic inspection across Grandstream GCC6010 and GWN7822P
  • •Migration architecture and licensing planning from on-premises email to Microsoft 365 cloud infrastructure

Independent Product Engineering

Revalune: Dream Journaling & Archetypal Dream Intelligence

An independent software platform uniting classical hermeneutic traditions with modern analytical psychology models, powered by a multi-layered symbolic analysis engine.

Architecture & Product Highlights:

  • •Unified TypeScript and Capacitor codebase distributed across Web, iOS, and Android platforms
  • •Serverless architecture grounded in Supabase PostgreSQL and Deno Edge Functions
  • •Strict user-level data isolation enforced by Row-Level Security (RLS)
  • •Four distinct analytical frameworks: Standard, Jungian, Traditional, and Comparative Deep Reading

Capability Domains

Engineering & Competency Domains

Technical focus areas demonstrated through verified enterprise roles and software products.

Enterprise IT & Infrastructure Governance

Systems architecture, identity governance, and directory auditing in enterprise environments.

  • ›Active Directory Domain & Hierarchical OU Design
  • ›Group Policy Object (GPO) Distribution & Endpoint Hardening
  • ›ADAudit Plus Directory Change Tracking & Event Auditing
  • ›Microsoft Windows Server, DNS, and DHCP Core Services
  • ›Hyper-V Virtualization Infrastructure & Resource Management

Cybersecurity & Network Architecture

Endpoint data exfiltration prevention, network segmentation, and protocol analysis.

  • ›ManageEngine Endpoint Central DLP & Sensitive Data Protection
  • ›KVKK Compliance Process Support & Departmental Exception Governance
  • ›Grandstream GCC6010 & GWN7822P Subnet Optimization
  • ›Port Mirroring & Packet-Level Analysis via Wireshark
  • ›Fortigate Firewall, VLAN, and VPN Network Infrastructure Management

Software Engineering & Product Building

Multi-platform web and mobile architectures, serverless backends, and database design.

  • ›Type-Safe Frontend Architecture with TypeScript & React 19
  • ›Native iOS & Android Deployment via Capacitor Bridge
  • ›Supabase PostgreSQL & Row-Level Security (RLS) Data Isolation
  • ›Serverless Microservices with Deno Edge Functions
  • ›Next.js App Router & Server Components Performance Tuning

Cloud Migration & Web Infrastructure

Cloud messaging migrations, DNS domain security records, and web server operations.

  • ›Microsoft 365 & Exchange Online Cloud Migration Architecture
  • ›Enterprise Licensing Tier Analysis & Planning
  • ›DNS (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) Email Authentication Configuration
  • ›Troubleshooting in IIS, Plesk, and ModSecurity Environments
  • ›Global Edge Deployment Management on Vercel Network

Career Timeline

Enterprise Background & Career Timeline

Over 9 years of verified systems leadership, operational discipline, and technical roles across industries.

ASSERSAN

IT Manager • İzmir, Türkiye

2025 – Present

Managing enterprise IT infrastructure, Active Directory domain setup, hierarchical OU architecture, ManageEngine Endpoint Central DLP sensitive data filtering, ADAudit Plus directory auditing, Grandstream network segmentation, and Microsoft 365 cloud migration architecture.

SOCAR TÜRKİYE

IT Support Specialist • İzmir, Türkiye

2022 – 2025

Delivering L1 and L2 technical support across 500+ end users, Active Directory user and group administration, IT hardware/software asset inventory management, operational maintenance of industrial handheld terminals, barcode systems, and production terminals, and providing support for KVKK-related compliance processes.

ÜSTAY İNŞAAT

IT Systems and Network Specialist • Istanbul, Türkiye

2018 – 2022

Managing Microsoft Windows Server operating systems, DNS/DHCP services, operating Hyper-V server virtualization infrastructure, configuring and administering Fortigate enterprise firewall, managing corporate VLAN and VPN network infrastructure, and providing Office 365 user support.

EGE VİZYON / PENTA / EARLY CAREER

Systems & Hardware Technician • İzmir, Türkiye

2015 – 2018

Assembly of server and workstation hardware, operating system installations, local network structured cabling, and fundamental IT maintenance operations.

Engineering Principles

Operating Principles & Values

Personal engineering principles distilled from hands-on systems architecture and product engineering.

Deterministic Reliability

Deterministic Reliability

Grounding system architecture in measurable, auditable specifications rather than assumptions. Whether writing a GPO security baseline or defining a TypeScript data schema, I establish rigorous boundaries that eliminate ambiguity.

Principle of Least Privilege

Principle of Least Privilege

Enforcing the narrowest scope of access strictly required for user or service workflows across data protection and identity governance. Avoiding blanket exemptions and holding all exceptions to continuous audit.

Build for Failure Modes

Build for Failure Modes

Treating failures not as unexpected anomalies, but as inevitable characteristics of enterprise networks and probabilistic AI outputs, engineering safe fallbacks and bounded blast radiuses by design.

Documentation as Infrastructure

Documentation as Infrastructure

Refusing to leave systems merely functional; completing every architecture with auditable, transferable, and comprehensive documentation that builds durable institutional knowledge.

Education

Academic Background & Professional Credentials

🎓Education History

  • Ahmet Yesevi University

    Computer Programming

    Associate Degree • Ongoing

  • Istanbul University

    Web Design and Coding

    Associate Degree • Ongoing

  • Izmir Bornova Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School

    Information Technologies

    Vocational High School • 2024

📜Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA)

    Microsoft

  • Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

    Microsoft

  • IT Academy Certificate of High Achievement

    Bilge Adam

Technical Publications

Articles & Engineering Notes

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Contact & Collaboration

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