Emily Burak
DevOps Engineer at CTA
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Burak is a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of experience designing and operating cloud-native systems, currently focused on platform engineering and SRE at CTA in Denver. She has deep hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Linux, and observability tooling, and has supported systems serving hundreds of billions of requests daily and petabyte-scale workloads. Emily has led multi-cloud networking projects, built IaC and developer tooling with Terraform, AWS CDK and Go, and improved reliability through anomaly detection, composite alarms, and ChatOps. Her background bridges data science and web development—Flatiron-trained in both—giving her an edge for shipping ML and API-driven services into production. A former Girls Who Code instructor and teaching assistant, she pairs technical rigor with mentorship and clear incident response practice. She’s driven by solving hard, scalable problems and consistently seeks cost and performance improvements across infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Immersive Data Science Data Science, Immersive Data Science Data Science at Flatiron SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science Philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University
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Github contributions (5)
MichaelBurak/Terraform-AWS-Docker-Jupyterlab-Starter
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:44 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
MichaelBurak/calculating-distance-lab-data-science-intro-000
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:140 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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