Burak Kaya
Member Of Technical Staff at Sentry
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBurak Kaya is a Member of Technical Staff at Sentry with 16 years of experience building reliable, high-performance developer tooling, CI/CD and deployment systems. He blends hands-on engineering with platform and reliability expertise—from improving Yarn and ESLint internals to automating releases and self-hosted Sentry deployments—helping teams ship faster and safer. At Facebook and Sentry he drove org-level reliability, release pipelines and open-source strategy, and at Formsort and Bloomberg he reengineered pipelines and observability for fast feedback and high signal-to-noise. A pragmatic tinkerer and automation engineer, he’s known for improving build tooling, test infrastructure and reproducible releases (notably contributing to the official Sentry JavaScript SDK and Yarn). Based in London, he pairs a Mechanical Engineering background with a love of Lego and a knack for turning brittle processes into auditable, automated workflows.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (58)
test-automation10
git10
javascript10
docker10
package-management10
python10
windows10
testing10
command-line-interface10
bash10
docker-compose10
eslint10
dockers10
cicd10
gruntjs10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/self-hosted
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
Sentry, feature-complete and packaged up for low-volume deployments and proofs-of-concept
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 427 reviews, 50 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Burak focused on improving the self-hosted Sentry deployment and testing infrastructure. Their contributions include adding end-to-end smoke testing with Travis CI, automating the installation process with a new script, and debugging issues within the Google Cloud Build environment. They also addressed configuration issues related to environment variables and dependencies, ensuring a more robust and reliable deployment process. Furthermore, the user enhanced the testing framework by adding more debugging information to pinpoint failures, optimizing the test suite for efficient execution, and improved the overall release process.
sentryvolumedockerdocker-composedeployments
yarnpkg/yarn
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:167 commits, 383 PRs, 519 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Burak contributed to the Yarn package manager by implementing performance optimizations within the codebase. They refactored code to use more efficient methods, fixed bugs related to lockfile handling and argument parsing, and improved the reliability of Git-related operations. Furthermore, they worked on improving test coverage and added new tests for features like command-line arguments and the handling of file-based dependencies. This work enhanced the stability and performance of the Yarn package manager.
berryyarnjavascriptpackage-managerfrozen
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