# Burak Dede - burakdede.com

> Engineering leader and software engineer based in Berlin with 15+ years of experience in distributed systems, platform engineering, and technical leadership across fintech, payments, e-commerce, logistics, and supply chain. Currently engineering leader and site lead at Wayfair.

## About

- Name: Burak Dede
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Current role: Engineering Leader and Site Lead at Wayfair
- Previous roles: Engineering Leader, Principal Engineer, CTO, Head of Engineering, Site Lead
- Industries: Fintech, Payments, E-commerce, Logistics, Supply Chain
- Contact: hi@burakdede.com

## Social Profiles
- 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

## Areas of 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

## Site Sections

- [Home](https://burakdede.com/): Professional profile and recent writing
- [About](https://burakdede.com/about/): Background, roles, and technical focus
- [Blog](https://burakdede.com/blog/): Long-form technical articles on software engineering and leadership
- [Talks](https://burakdede.com/talks/): Conference presentations and technical talks
- [Reading](https://burakdede.com/reading/): Books that shaped how Burak Dede thinks

## Recent Content
- [Running Apple StoreKit 2 Subscriptions on Cloudflare Workers and D1 Without Paying a Revenue Cut](https://burakdede.com/blog/apple-storekit-2-subscriptions-cloudflare-workers-d1-revenuecat-alternative/): 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.
- [Every AI Session Starts With Amnesia, and I'm the One Carrying the Context](https://burakdede.com/blog/every-ai-session-starts-with-amnesia/): 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.
- [Introduction to Android Game Development](https://burakdede.com/talks/introduction-to-android-game-development/): 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 …
- [Developing Mobile Web Apps with Open Source Frameworks](https://burakdede.com/talks/developing-mobile-web-apps-with-open-source-frameworks/): 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.
- [The Death of the Mobile Developer: AI Is Quietly Eating the App Store](https://burakdede.com/blog/the-mobile-golden-era-and-what-comes-after/): 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 …
- [Mastering Multi-Environment Terraform: Strategies from the Trenches](https://burakdede.com/blog/mastering-multi-environment-terraform-strategies-from-the-trenches/): 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 …
- [The Terraform Bootstrap Problem: How to Create Your State Backend Without Going Insane](https://burakdede.com/blog/the-terraform-bootstrap-problem-how-to-create-your-state-backend-without-going-insane/): 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 …
- [AI Made Coding Cheap. Coordination Is Still Expensive](https://burakdede.com/blog/ai-made-coding-cheap-coordination-is-still-expensive/): 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, …

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## Last-Updated: 2026-08-03