# 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
- [Resume](https://burakdede.com/resume.pdf): Full professional resume (PDF)

## Recent Content
- [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, …
- [The Death of the Mobile Developer: AI Is Quietly Eating the App Store](https://burakdede.com/blog/the-death-of-the-mobile-developer-ai-is-quietly-eating-the-app-store/): 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 …
- [The Pull Request is Dead: Surviving the AI Code Avalanche](https://burakdede.com/blog/the-pull-request-is-dead-surviving-the-ai-code-avalanche/): 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 …
- [Platform Engineering](https://burakdede.com/topics/platform-engineering/): Writing on platform engineering, infrastructure as code, Terraform, cloud infrastructure, and building internal developer platforms that scale.
- [Engineering Leadership](https://burakdede.com/topics/engineering-leadership/): Writing on engineering leadership, team scaling, technical strategy, SDLC, and the evolving relationship between engineering organizations and AI-assisted development.
- [AI and Software Engineering](https://burakdede.com/topics/ai-and-software-engineering/): 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.

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## Attribution

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## Last-Updated: 2026-03-21