Summary
Burak Bagatarhan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Istanbul with seven years of experience building search and data-driven services for high-traffic platforms. He has designed and operated search engines and pipelines using Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, and cloud-native tooling like Docker and Kubernetes across companies such as Trendyol, Getir, and Insider One. His background spans ML and AI—from building an image-based fashion search startup (Machion) that used deep learning for feature extraction to roles in AI/ML at Turkcell—bringing a practical blend of retrieval, ML and systems engineering. Burak frequently implements microservices and REST APIs in Java and Go, and emphasizes quality through unit and integration testing. He’s comfortable managing end-to-end data flow and deployment at scale, including Kafka-based streaming and AWS operations. Colleagues would note his entrepreneurial streak and hands-on approach to turning research-level models into production-ready search solutions.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lisans Derecesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği, Lisans Derecesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği at Sakarya University
İngilizce, Turkish