Burak Bacioglu
Staff Software Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBurak Bacioglu is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 10+ years of experience building large-scale, highly available distributed systems at Netflix and earlier platform work at Microsoft. He designs and implements resilient asset management and infrastructure platforms, integrating diverse data stores (Cassandra, CockroachDB, MySQL), search/analytics, streaming, and big-data stacks such as Iceberg and Spark. A backend and database engineer by practice, he has contributed to the open-source Citus project—improving core PostgreSQL extension behavior for deletes, metadata sync, and binary copy handling—bringing practical database internals experience to cloud-scale services. Known for bridging deep technical detail with system architecture, he combines production-hardened engineering with a track record of shipping complex, scalable features across content platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Math & Science, High School Diploma Math & Science at KALBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (9)
databases10
citus10
postgresql10
distributed-database10
sql10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
citusdata/citus
Feb 2017 - Jun 2022
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:20 releases, 209 reviews, 541 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Burak contributed to the core database functionalities of the Citus extension for PostgreSQL. They focused on improving delete operations, enhancing metadata synchronization, and implementing size-related user-defined functions (UDFs). Additionally, they addressed issues related to binary copy formats and ensured correct propagation of database objects during alterations.
postgresqldatabasecitusmulti-tenantscale
velioglu/ubicloud
May 2024 - Dec 2024
Open, free, and portable cloud. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), virtual networking, managed Postgres, and IAM services in public beta.
Contributions:177 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
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