# 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/

## Recent And Reference Content
### 1. Running Apple StoreKit 2 Subscriptions on Cloudflare Workers and D1 Without Paying a Revenue Cut

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/apple-storekit-2-subscriptions-cloudflare-workers-d1-revenuecat-alternative/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2026-08-03
- Updated: 2026-08-03
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: storekit 2, apple, ios, in-app purchase, subscriptions, cloudflare workers, cloudflare d1, revenuecat alternative, app store server api, app store server notifications, receipt validation, serverless, open source
- Reading time: 7 min
- Word count: 1386
- Summary: I open sourced a drop-in server-side StoreKit 2 backend for Cloudflare Workers and D1. Apple JWS verification, entitlement resolution, and App Store Server Notifications V2, without handing a percentage of subscription revenue to a third-party SaaS.


### 2. Every AI Session Starts With Amnesia, and I'm the One Carrying the Context

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/every-ai-session-starts-with-amnesia/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2026-07-31
- Updated: 2026-08-01
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: ai, ai coding agents, developer tools, context engineering, mcp, software delivery, knowledge management, lorepack
- Reading time: 14 min
- Word count: 2750
- Summary: AI tools are getting better, but project context still gets reconstructed inside every new session. The missing layer is durable, reproducible project context shared across tools.


### 3. Introduction to Android Game Development

- URL: https://burakdede.com/talks/introduction-to-android-game-development/
- Section: talks
- Published: 2009-04-17
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- Tags: android, game development, mobile development, talk, open source
- Reading time: 2 min
- Word count: 210
- 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 …


### 4. 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: 2026-07-18
- Tags: mobile web, open source frameworks, mobile development, talk, cross-platform
- Reading time: 2 min
- Word count: 204
- 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.


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

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/the-mobile-golden-era-and-what-comes-after/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2025-09-06
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: mobile development, ai, app store, ios, android, developer careers, software industry, agents
- 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 …


### 6. 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: 2026-07-18
- Categories: DevOps & Cloud
- Tags: terraform, infrastructure as code, devops, cloud infrastructure, multi-environment, platform engineering, aws, environment management
- Reading time: 16 min
- Word count: 3192
- 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 …


### 7. 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: 2026-07-18
- Categories: DevOps & Cloud
- Tags: terraform, devops, infrastructure as code, remote state, s3, cloud infrastructure, aws, platform engineering
- Reading time: 17 min
- Word count: 3390
- 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 …


### 8. 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: 2026-07-18
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: ai, ai coding agents, software delivery, engineering leadership, coordination, product engineering, execution, systems thinking
- 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, …


### 9. 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: 2026-07-18
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: ai, pull requests, code review, software delivery, verification, engineering leadership, ai coding agents, sdlc
- 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 …


### 10. Code Is Cheap. Guarantees Aren’t

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/code-is-cheap-guarantees-arent/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2026-03-21
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: ai, programming languages, software correctness, verification, engineering systems, code generation, guarantees, software design
- Reading time: 4 min
- Word count: 697
- Summary: If models write more of the code and humans increasingly review, constrain, and verify it, then popularity in the human-coded era is not the same thing as fitness for the next one. The harder problem is no longer just producing code. It is building stacks that …


### 11. Project `aisw` : Switching Between Multiple Accounts in Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/switch-accounts-claude-code-codex-gemini-cli/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2026-03-25
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: ai switcher, aisw, claude code, codex cli, gemini cli, multiple accounts, account switching, developer tools, ai coding agents
- Reading time: 3 min
- Word count: 483
- Summary: None of the major AI coding CLIs support multiple accounts natively. I built aisw, a lightweight CLI tool to manage and switch between credential profiles across Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI with a single command.


### 12. How to Switch Between Multiple Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI Accounts Without the Credential Mess

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/ai-switcher-multiple-accounts-claude-code-codex-cli-gemini-cli/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2026-07-02
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: ai, developer tools, claude code, codex cli, gemini cli, cli, account switching, multiple accounts, auth profiles, ai coding agents
- Reading time: 16 min
- Word count: 3098
- Summary: AI Switcher (`aisw`) is a local CLI for switching between multiple Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI accounts with named profiles, reusable contexts, safer credential handling, and one status command.


### 13. AI Switcher Desktop Alpha: A GUI for Switching Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity, and Gemini CLI Accounts

- URL: https://burakdede.com/blog/ai-switcher-desktop-app-switching-coding-agents-accounts-got-easier-codex-claude-antigravity/
- Section: blog
- Published: 2026-07-18
- Updated: 2026-07-18
- Categories: Software Engineering
- Tags: ai switcher, aisw, desktop app, claude code, codex cli, antigravity, gemini cli, multiple accounts, account manager, developer tools, account switching, ai coding agents, macos, cross-platform, tauri
- Reading time: 6 min
- Word count: 1151
- Summary: AI Switcher Desktop is the first alpha of the GUI companion to `aisw`, making local multi-account switching easier for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Antigravity, and Gemini CLI across work, personal, and client setups.

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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: 2026-08-03