Burak Şen
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Summary
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RockstarBurak Şen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ankara with three years of professional experience, currently working at Edge Delta. He focuses on back-end systems and performance optimization, contributing notable improvements to the Apache DataFusion SQL query engine by refactoring scalar operations into Arrow unary/binary kernels, tightening function macros, and adding unit tests. Burak's work blends practical bug fixes and code-style improvements with deeper algorithmic tweaks in math-heavy modules like round and log, demonstrating attention to both correctness and throughput. Though early in his career, he has already impacted a prominent open-source project, signaling a propensity for systems-level thinking and pragmatic engineering.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
fusion10
apache-arrow10
query-engine10
rust10
arrows10
arrow-js10
sql9
big-data9
dataframes8
dataframe8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/datafusion
Aug 2024 - Jul 2026
Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 reviews, 21 PRs, 101 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Burak's primary contribution focuses on optimizing the Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine. This involved refactoring code related to scalar inputs and data types, replacing them with arrow unary/binary operations to improve performance. The user also made changes to function macros, data types and mathematical calculations within the round and log modules. The contributions involved improving code style, fixing bugs, and adding unit tests to ensure the functionality of the engine.
sql-queryarrowbig-datadataframedatafusion
buraksenn/datafusion
Oct 2024 - Jul 2026
Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
Contributions:12 PRs, 169 pushes, 56 branches in 1 year 9 months
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