Burak Sekili
Software Engineer - Mid Level Go Engineer at Tyk
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolBurak Sekili is a mid-level Go software engineer with 8 years of experience focused on backend development, distributed systems, and developer tooling, currently based in Istanbul. He is a core maintainer of Tyk’s Kubernetes Operator, controllers and Helm charts, where he improved operator performance, boosted drift detection, and cut external API calls by 57% to enhance scalability. Regularly working with kubebuilder, controller-runtime and client-go, he leads Gateway API design and has extended ingress capabilities to ensure API gateway compatibility on Kubernetes. His open-source work includes backend contributions to event-driven infrastructure (supermq) and designing runtime-exposable configuration tooling, reflecting a pragmatic approach to API design and observability. Earlier roles include building a Zanzibar-style authorization microservice at Mainflux and applied ML research during university, showing breadth from infrastructure to data-driven solutions. He combines hands-on operator engineering with a taste for developer experience improvements, such as a VS Code JSON schema validator and forthcoming open-source packages.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.70 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.70 / 4.00 at Sabanci University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (18)
messaging10
mqtt10
mqttnet10
go10
apidoc9
distributed-systems9
api9
rest-api8
api-rest8
testing8
restful-api8
api-design8
postgresql8
json7
golang7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
absmach/supermq
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Event-driven Infrastructure for Modern Cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 14 commits, 20 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Burak primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `supermq` repository, focusing on enhancing the core features. They implemented fixes related to user retrieval and group management, particularly addressing issues with empty groups and invalid IDs. The user also added a new `/disconnect` endpoint for the Things service, including associated tests, and refactored existing endpoints, demonstrating a focus on API design and implementation. Additionally, they made changes to the JSON transformer, making flattening optional.
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buraksekili/object-detection-app
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:44 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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