Burak Bala
Senior Consultant at UnderwriteMe
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBurak Bala is a Senior Consultant and software engineer with nine years of professional experience building backend and distributed systems across finance, media, and government sectors. Currently at UnderwriteMe, he specializes in Scala, Java, and reactive architectures, bringing hands-on experience from roles at Sky (akka, Kafka, Cassandra), HMRC, and Goldman Sachs (big data with Hadoop/Hive). He has a strong track record of delivering REST and streaming services for high-throughput platforms and has repeatedly operated in agile, mission-critical environments. Trained in computer science at Bilkent University, Burak combines deep backend engineering skills with a practical focus on scalability and operational robustness—skills honed on projects ranging from video platforms to insurance underwriting.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Bilkent University
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Github contributions (5)
burakbala/kafka-experiments
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
hmrc/tax-account-router-frontend
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 months
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