Hey, I’m Gorkem Ercan, a co-founder and the CTO of Jozu, where I spend my days building MLOps solutions that aim to make AI development less of a wild west shootout and more of a streamlined, secure process. You might know me from some of my open-source work—I’m the guy behind KitOps.ml, the Eclipse JDT Language Server, the vscode-java extension, and a bunch of other tools that you’ve probably used without realizing who to blame.
My journey in tech didn’t start with a grand plan or a fancy title. I’ve always been more of a tinkerer, fascinated by the way things work—or more often, why they don’t. Over the years, I’ve had my hands in just about everything: IDEs, mobile phones, CI/CD systems, and now, MLOps. What ties it all together is a relentless drive to improve the tools we rely on every day.
Before Jozu, I was a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, where I learned that big companies can, in fact, play nice with open-source communities. I also served on the board of the Eclipse Foundation, where I did my best to keep the focus on transparency, collaboration, and keeping the software a little less locked down.
Recent Publications
Securing Backstage Plugins Using the Permissions Framework [BackstageCon]
Developing Cordova Applications with Eclipse IDE [ApacheCon]
Podcasts
