Burak Cakirel
Director at Sokian Limited
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBurak Cakirel is a director and hands-on software engineer with 12 years of experience designing and delivering full-stack web applications and cloud-native systems from London. He specializes in PHP, Laravel and Symfony while also bridging broad stacks including Python, React and AWS services, and regularly handles DevOps, server administration and database tuning. As founder of Sokian Limited he architects products end-to-end, maintains multiple Akaunting marketplace modules, and contributes meaningful backend fixes and tests to the popular open-source Akaunting project. His career combines leadership roles and individual contributions—driving performance gains (e.g., email throughput optimisations with RabbitMQ/Redis) and introducing engineering best practices like PSR enforcement and CI improvements. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often pairs legacy modernization with practical automation (e.g., CSV importers, secure document storage, Elasticsearch integrations) to turn complex requirements into maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Statistics, Bachelor's degree Statistics at Cukurova UniversityHilmi Fırat Anatolian High School
English
Stackoverflow
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92reached
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Github Skills (24)
billing10
laravel-mix10
amazon-elasticsearch10
accounting10
invoice10
laravel10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
mysql9
mysql-db9
phpstan9
database-schema8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
akaunting/akaunting
Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
Online Accounting Software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 130 commits, 109 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Burak primarily contributes to the back-end functionality of the online accounting software. They implemented features such as pre-selected values for multi-select groups and fixed minor bugs related to class names within bulk actions for modules. Additionally, the user corrected issues in the export functionality, adding contact phone headers, and fixed import page titles for modules. They also created and modified tests and data seeding files.
akauntinginvoicescrmfinancemoney
matchish/laravel-scout-elasticsearch
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Search among multiple models with ElasticSearch and Laravel Scout
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Burak primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality and maintainability within the Laravel Scout Elasticsearch integration. Their contributions included fixing PHPStan errors, addressing StyleCI issues, and adding type hints, enhancing code clarity. They also introduced the routing meta-field, demonstrating a practical understanding of integrating with Elasticsearch and solving problems with join datatypes.
scoutphplaravel-scoutelasticsearchlaravel
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