About Burak Dede
Engineering leader and software engineer in Germany. Two decades building and leading teams in fintech, payments, e-commerce, logistics and supply chain.
Currently engineering leader and site lead at Wayfair.
What I do#
I lead engineering organizations and stay close to the code. Most of my work is setting technical direction, shaping teams and how they work, and keeping large systems reliable as they grow.
- Engineering strategy and platform modernization
- Organization design, hiring and growing engineers
- Architecture decisions and how teams make them
- Reliability and incident management, including in regulated domains
- Working with product, operations and finance on what to build and why
Technical#
- Distributed and event-driven systems
- Platform and data engineering
- AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform
- AI-assisted software delivery
Writing#
I write about engineering leadership, AI-assisted delivery and platform decisions. Read the blog →
If you’re looking for a Director of Engineering, VP of Engineering or CTO with a real mandate (ownership of technical strategy, the authority and autonomy to build the organization, and a seat at the executive table), I’d like to hear from you. Based in Germany, working across Europe, on site or remote. Email hi@burakdede.com or read the résumé (PDF).
Earlier talks
Archive- 2010 Developing Mobile Web Apps with Open Source Frameworks Open Web Technologies Days
- 2009 Introduction to Android Game Development Linux and Open Source Days