// operations team lead — victoria, texas

OKAN
DELIBALTA.

// what I build

Systems people depend on.

Now

AI agents for education data

Building an agent that understands the education data standards our clients actually run on — Ed-Fi, TEA TSDS, College Board, Accuplacer — and answers our users' questions directly from their own data. I am training it now, and teaching it to educate itself on how the Texas and California education systems work.

  • Ed-Fi
  • TEA TSDS
  • College Board
  • Accuplacer
  • Agent training
Now

Agentic migration off the legacy codebase

Running an NVIDIA Spark box in the office as on-prem inference for a two-tier agent system: Claude orchestrates the migration plan, and a local Qwen model does the heavy code refactoring. The goal is to finally retire the legacy codebase and run entirely on our modern framework.

  • NVIDIA Spark
  • Local inference
  • Qwen
  • Claude
  • Code migration
2016 —

Mission-critical state data pipelines

Architected the real-time synchronization engine for the Texas Education Agency API, then extended the same fault-tolerant ingestion architecture to California's Aeries SIS. Over 1.1 billion rows moved at full state reporting compliance, with no data latency.

  • TEA API
  • Aeries SIS
  • Fault tolerance
  • Python
  • FastAPI
Ongoing

React and TypeScript across a Laravel platform

Our product runs on PHP and Laravel, and still does. My work has been building its React and TypeScript surface and the Node scripting around it — and I am one of two developers on the team who can write in those languages without leaning on AI to do it.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node
  • Laravel
  • PHP 8.x

// the long haul

Seventeen years of shipping.

  1. 2007

    Studied computer science

    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

    Came on as a 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. 2016

    Built the Texas sync engine

    Designed and shipped the real-time synchronization engine for the Texas Education Agency API: fault-tolerant pipelines that keep district data and state reporting in step, with zero data latency and full compliance.

  4. 2019

    Containerized how the team ships

    Replaced hand-configured local setups with Docker across the whole development lifecycle, so every developer's environment matched production exactly. Configuration drift stopped being a class of bug, onboarding went from days to an afternoon, and deployment regressions dropped.

  5. 2021

    Brought React and TypeScript into the product

    Built the React and TypeScript surface of a platform that runs on PHP and Laravel, along with the Node scripting around it — one of two developers on the team who can work in those languages without relying on AI.

  6. 2024

    Opened California

    Built the district-level data pull for California's Aeries SIS API, proving the Texas ingestion architecture generalized to a second state and its reporting rules.

  7. 2026

    Leading the team, and going agentic

    Operations Team Lead. Training an agent on the education data standards our clients use so it can answer their questions directly, and running an on-prem NVIDIA Spark box where Claude orchestrates and a local Qwen model refactors us off the legacy codebase for good.

// toolbox

Polyglot by conviction.

AI & agents

  • Agent orchestration (Claude)
  • Local inference (Qwen)
  • NVIDIA Spark on-prem
  • Retrieval over domain data

Education data standards

  • Ed-Fi
  • TEA TSDS
  • Aeries SIS
  • College Board
  • Accuplacer

Core architecture

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

Infrastructure & DevOps

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

Data & analytics

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

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
LinkedIn GitHub MotoPositiveGeek Résumé
Okan Delibalta — Operations Team Lead