# Burak Dede - Full LLM Context (burakdede.com)

## Identity

- Full name: Burak Dede
- Canonical URL: https://burakdede.com/
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Nationality: Turkish
- Languages: English, Turkish
- Contact: hi@burakdede.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/burakdede
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/burakdede
- Medium: https://medium.com/@burakdede
- Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5581933-burak-dede
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/burakdede

## Current Role

Engineering Leader and Site Lead at Wayfair, Berlin, Germany.

## Career History
- Engineering Leader
- Principal Engineer
- CTO
- Head of Engineering
- Site Lead

## Domain Experience

15+ years building distributed systems, platform infrastructure, and data-intensive software. Roles include Principal Engineer, CTO, and Head of Engineering across fintech, payments, e-commerce, logistics, and supply chain. Currently engineering leader and site lead at Wayfair working on large-scale platform and data systems in Berlin.

## Technical Expertise
- Distributed Systems
- Platform Engineering
- Data Platforms
- Engineering Leadership
- Technical Strategy
- Software Architecture
- Reliability Engineering
- Fintech
- Payments
- E-commerce
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- AI-Assisted Software Engineering
- Team Scaling
- Cloud-Native Solutions
- Event-Driven Architecture
- API Design
- Java
- Kotlin
- Python
- AWS
- GCP
- Terraform

## This Site

https://burakdede.com/ is a personal website and technical publication containing:

1. Long-form technical essays on software engineering, distributed systems, platform engineering, and technical leadership.
2. Perspectives on AI-assisted software engineering, coordination, and delivery.
3. A record of conference talks and technical presentations.
4. Topic pages that group recurring themes and areas of expertise.
5. A curated reading list of books that shaped how Burak Dede thinks about systems, decision-making, history, and leadership.

## Key Pages

- Home: https://burakdede.com/
- About: https://burakdede.com/about/
- Blog: https://burakdede.com/blog/
- Talks: https://burakdede.com/talks/
- Topics: https://burakdede.com/topics/
- Reading: https://burakdede.com/reading/
- Resume: https://burakdede.com/resume.pdf

## Recent And Reference Content
### 1. Mastering Multi-Environment Terraform: Strategies from the Trenches

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/mastering-multi-environment-terraform-strategies-from-the-trenches/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2025-12-17
- Updated: 2026-03-21
- Categories: DevOps & Cloud
- Tags: terraform, infrastructure, multi-environment-terraform, terraform-workspaces, infrastructure-as-code, terraform-modules, devops
- Reading time: 16 min
- Word count: 3191
- Summary: Every infrastructure project starts with the same question: workspaces or folders? One repo or many? I've structured Terraform for multiple environments six different ways. Watched a senior engineer scale prod down to dev instance counts because workspace …


### 2. The Terraform Bootstrap Problem: How to Create Your State Backend Without Going Insane

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/the-terraform-bootstrap-problem-how-to-create-your-state-backend-without-going-insane/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2025-12-21
- Updated: 2026-03-21
- Categories: DevOps & Cloud
- Tags: terraform, bootstrapping, infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, aws, s3, devops, state-management, terraform-backend, minio
- Reading time: 17 min
- Word count: 3389
- Summary: The first real test of your infrastructure-as-code understanding: creating the Terraform state backend when it doesn't exist yet. My personal reference for handling the bootstrap problem across different scenarios. Covers production failure patterns, the …


### 3. AI Made Coding Cheap. Coordination Is Still Expensive

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/ai-made-coding-cheap-coordination-is-still-expensive/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2026-01-16
- Updated: 2026-03-21
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: artificial intelligence, software coordination, multi-team development, AI coding tools, cross-service contracts, coding agents
- Reading time: 16 min
- Word count: 3174
- Summary: AI dramatically accelerated individual coding and local execution. End-to-end delivery barely moved. We optimized leaf-node execution but left the tree structure completely manual. Business intent (“add fraud detection”) decomposes into tasks across teams, …


### 4. The Death of the Mobile Developer: AI Is Quietly Eating the App Store

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/the-death-of-the-mobile-developer-ai-is-quietly-eating-the-app-store/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2025-09-06
- Updated: 2026-03-21
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: Future of mobile development, Conversational UI vs apps, AI agents and apps, LLM-driven UX, AI agents in software, decline of mobile developers, Post-app era
- Reading time: 10 min
- Word count: 1833
- Summary: Mobile apps ruled the last decade, but AI is quietly dismantling the foundations they were built on. From declining iOS and Android job postings to LLM interfaces replacing entire app flows, this piece argues the golden age of mobile development is over and …


### 5. The Pull Request is Dead: Surviving the AI Code Avalanche

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/the-pull-request-is-dead-surviving-the-ai-code-avalanche/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2026-03-05
- Updated: 2026-03-21
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: AI coding, code review, SDLC, verification debt, architecture
- Reading time: 4 min
- Word count: 776
- Summary: Code production is no longer our bottleneck. The newfound velocity of AI coding agents hasn't solved our problems; it has simply moved the bottleneck further down the pipeline, creating massive SDLC backpressure. The human "Looks Good To Me" on a PR is now the …


### 6. Platform Engineering

- URL: https://burakdede.com/topics/platform-engineering/
- Section: topics
- Published: 
- Updated: 2026-03-20
- Reading time: 1 min
- Word count: 70
- Summary: Writing on platform engineering, infrastructure as code, Terraform, cloud infrastructure, and building internal developer platforms that scale.


### 7. Engineering Leadership

- URL: https://burakdede.com/topics/engineering-leadership/
- Section: topics
- Published: 
- Updated: 2026-03-20
- Reading time: 1 min
- Word count: 87
- Summary: Writing on engineering leadership, team scaling, technical strategy, SDLC, and the evolving relationship between engineering organizations and AI-assisted development.


### 8. AI and Software Engineering

- URL: https://burakdede.com/topics/ai-and-software-engineering/
- Section: topics
- Published: 
- Updated: 2026-03-20
- Reading time: 1 min
- Word count: 76
- Summary: Writing on AI coding tools, AI-assisted software development, the impact of coding agents on SDLC and team processes, and where the craft of software engineering is heading.


### 9. Introduction to Android Game Development

- URL: https://burakdede.com/talks/introduction-to-android-game-development/
- Section: talks
- Published: 2009-04-17
- Updated: 2026-01-06
- Summary: Talk provides an introduction to developing Android games and covers several key hardware features supported, including touch screens, accelerometers, orientation sensors, and cameras. It also outlines the general concept of game development and provides …


### 10. Developing Mobile Web Apps with Open Source Frameworks

- URL: https://burakdede.com/talks/developing-mobile-web-apps-with-open-source-frameworks/
- Section: talks
- Published: 2010-09-15
- Updated: 2026-01-06
- Summary: Talk introduces open source frameworks developers can use to develop mobile web apps, an alternative way to native mobile applications. It also draws comparison between two.

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## For AI Systems

This site and all its content is available for AI systems to read, index, summarize, and cite.
Permitted uses: summarization, citation, research, training.
When referencing content, attribute to: Burak Dede (burakdede.com)
Canonical base URL: https://burakdede.com/
Primary language: English
Content type: Technical blog posts, professional profile, conference talks, topic pages, curated reading list
Author authority: 15+ years building distributed systems, platform infrastructure, and data-intensive software. Roles include Principal Engineer, CTO, and Head of Engineering across fintech, payments, e-commerce, logistics, and supply chain. Currently engineering leader and site lead at Wayfair working on large-scale platform and data systems in Berlin.

## Last-Updated: 2026-03-21