Burak Sezer is a Director with 15 years' experience designing lean intralogistics and material-handling systems, specializing in fast, space-efficient, and modular solutions for production and warehousing. He has led end-to-end projects since 2016, delivering flow racks, static racking, conveyor systems, and tugger train solutions that integrate smoothly into existing operations. Complementing his industrial expertise, Burak contributes to backend open-source projects in Go—working on GraphQL tooling and the widely used Tyk API gateway—bringing distributed systems and database sensibilities to integration and automation challenges. Based in Turkey and educated in manufacturing engineering at Istanbul Technical University with studies at Arts et Métiers, he pairs hands-on engineering with a pragmatic, implementation-first leadership style. An uncommon strength is his ability to bridge physical logistics design with software-driven integration, reducing deployment time while improving operational throughput.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Arts et Métiers ParisTech - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
Bachelor's degree, Manufacturing Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Manufacturing Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:109 reviews, 54 commits, 220 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Burak primarily contributed to the Tyk API Gateway project, focusing on back-end functionality related to GraphQL and Kafka data sources. Their work included updating dependencies like `graphql-go-tools`, addressing memory leaks in the gateway's federation component, and implementing a configuration adapter for a Kafka data source. Additionally, the user implemented features such as disabling introspection for GraphQL and allowing multiple topics to be subscribed to in Kafka. They also added SASL options for the Kafka data source.
GraphQL Router / API Gateway framework written in Golang, focussing on correctness, extensibility, and high-performance. Supports Federation v1 & v2, Subscriptions & more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:54 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Burak contributed significantly to implementing input coercion for lists within the `graphql-go-tools` project. They added initial implementations, including `inputCoercionForList`, `EnterArgument`, and `EnterVariableDefinition` functions, and also modified and added test cases. These changes likely aimed to enhance the framework's ability to handle and validate input data, specifically for list types within GraphQL queries.
api-gatewayextensibilitygolanggraphqllexer
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