// operations team lead — victoria, tx

OKAN
DELIBALTA.

// what I do

Systems people depend on, made modern.

01

Legacy modernization

Led the decoupling of a monolithic legacy PHP frontend into a standalone Next.js + TypeScript application — faster page loads, better SEO, and a component library the team still builds on today.

02

Mission-critical data

Architected the real-time sync engine for the Texas Education Agency API and the data pull system for California's Aeries SIS: fault-tolerant pipelines that have moved over 1.1 billion rows with 100% compliance to state reporting standards.

03

Developer infrastructure

Brought Docker containerization to the entire development lifecycle — eliminated environment drift between dev and production, cut onboarding time, and reduced deployment regressions.

// the long haul

Seventeen years of shipping.

  1. 2007

    The foundation

    Associate of Science at Victoria College, then a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Houston–Victoria.

  2. 2009

    Joined Aloe Software Group

    Full-stack engineer on enterprise education software. Still here — not out of inertia, but ownership. When you stay, you live with every architectural decision you make.

  3. The TEA sync engine

    A mission-critical, real-time synchronization engine for the Texas Education Agency API. Fault-tolerant pipelines, zero data latency, full state compliance — over 1.1 billion rows and counting.

  4. The California expansion

    Built the district-level data pull system for California's Aeries SIS API, extending the same fault-tolerant ingestion architecture to a second state.

  5. The modernization push

    Spearheaded the move off the legacy monolith: a high-performance standalone Next.js + TypeScript application and the component library beneath it.

  6. The Docker transformation

    Containerized the internal development lifecycle end to end, killing configuration drift between development and production.

  7. NOW

    R&D mode

    Building a data-aggregation platform with Python (Scrapy) and FastAPI behind a Next.js frontend, and going deep on Rust and Go.

// toolbox

Polyglot by conviction.

Core architecture

  • PHP 8.x
  • Laravel
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js (SSR/SSG)
  • MySQL / MariaDB

Infrastructure & DevOps

  • Docker
  • Ubuntu / CentOS
  • NginX
  • Apache
  • CI/CD pipelines

Data & analytics

  • Python (Pandas / Scrapy)
  • R (statistical modeling)
  • RESTful API integration
  • FastAPI

Emerging tech & R&D

  • Rust
  • Go

Education

B.S. Computer Science — University of Houston–Victoria

Associate of Science — Victoria College

Certifications

  • Functions, Methods, and Interfaces in Go — Coursera
  • Programming with Google Go — Coursera
  • Ultimate Rust 2: Intermediate Concepts — Udemy
  • Ultimate Rust Crash Course — Udemy
  • Data Science Specialization — Coursera
  • Python Data Structures — Coursera

// contact

Let's build something
that lasts.

okandelibalta@gmail.com
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