Burak Simsek
Co-Founder & CTO at NVAPPS
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBurak Simsek is a London-based technologist and co-founder-CTO with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable web platforms across startups and large fintech and consumer companies. He has progressed from software engineering roles at Facebook, Lyst, and Deliveroo to senior engineering at OakNorth and now leads product and engineering at Makerment and NVAPPS. Known for bridging product thinking and execution, he routinely moves between architecture, backend systems, and shipping customer-facing features. His background in Computer Science from Hacettepe University underpins a pragmatic approach to system design and team leadership. Burak remains active in the developer community, sharing work via his GitHub/Utopian profile and applying open collaboration practices to early-stage ventures. He brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of delivering reliable systems under real-world constraints.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science & Engineering, B.S Computer Science & Engineering at Hacettepe University
Turkish, English
Github Skills (5)
laravel2
php2
django2
cms1
mysql1
Github contributions (5)
kburaky/SmartConf
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 commits in 2 days
cmsmanagement-systemmysqldjangophp
canburaksimsek/CanHoa
Apr 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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