Burak Kara
Vice President Of Software Engineering at Kongsberg Maritime
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolBurak Kara is a Vice President of Software Engineering based in Oslo with nine years of experience building cloud-native, simulation and digital twin platforms for maritime and industrial domains. He has led large, distributed teams (up to 72 engineers) through agile transformations, introduced OKRs and Scrum at scale, and delivered a profitable Cloud SaaS platform while improving EBITDA by 15%. Technically hands-on, he blends expertise in Kubernetes, Azure/GCP/AWS, C#/C++, Unreal Engine and LLMs to drive high-fidelity simulation, CAD ingestion and VR/AR systems from prototype to production. His background includes designing microservice-driven CAD pipelines, ROV and subsea digital twins, and cross-platform Unreal Engine tooling that runs on WebGL and mobile. Known for combining product-minded leadership with low-level systems work, he also built resource planning and automated goal-setting tooling to improve cross-functional alignment. Outside executive duties he retains a founder’s engineering itch, having previously launched VR/mobile startups and secured government innovation grants.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Engineering at TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi
Turkish, Norwegian, English
Github Skills (11)
unreal3
dotnet2
unreal-engine-42
open-source1
linux1
virtual-reality1
engine1
redis1
launcher1
microservice-framework1
cad1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bkio/BDotNetFramework
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
BDotNetFramework is a microservice framework for .NET Core 3 and .NET Framework 4.7+ that abstracts many cloud features.MIT License, Copyright Burak Kara, burak@burak.io, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
Contributions:6 reviews, 2 PRs, 125 pushes in 1 year
dotnetmicroservice-framework
bkio/utilities-dotnet-framework
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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