Burak O
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Nuremberg Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolBurak O is a software engineer based in the Greater Nuremberg area with three years of professional experience building backend and DevOps solutions at Microsoft and DATEV. He has a strong systems focus demonstrated by hands-on contributions to the eBPF-powered Inspektor Gadget project, where he improved core gadget integrations, test validation for numerous tracers, and developer-facing build/deployment tooling. Comfortable working across cloud-native environments and Linux internals, he brings practical expertise in test automation and container configuration. With a Master’s from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and early tutoring/working-student roles that reinforced his algorithms and development foundations, he blends academic rigor with production-grade engineering.
3 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at University of Erlangen-NurembergIndustry Technologist, Industry Technologist at Siemens Technik Akademie Erlangen
Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
go10
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
dockers9
devops9
containerization9
automation9
automations9
docker9
json9
github-ci8
bpf8
githubaction-workflow8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
inspektor-gadget/inspektor-gadget
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:957 reviews, 141 commits, 367 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Burak primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the Inspektor Gadget project by integrating the "columns library" across multiple gadgets, including trace/mount, trace/oomkill, trace/fsslower, and trace/open. Furthermore, they made significant improvements to the testing infrastructure, validating JSON output for integration tests related to mountsnoop, oomkill, fsslower, tcptop, ebpftop, filetop, biotop, networkgraph, tcpconnect, and tcptracer. Additionally, they focused on improving the local-gadget build and deployment configurations by incorporating and configuring container socket path configurations.
bpfgadgetskubernetes-applicationskinvolkhackto
burak-ok/inspektor-gadget
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Introspecting and debugging Kubernetes applications using eBPF "gadgets"
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 6 months
gadgetskubernetes-applicationsebpfdebuggingk8s
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