# Burak Özkırdeniz

> Software engineer and technical product lead based in Istanbul, Türkiye. Eight years of experience shipping CMS platforms, event systems and mobile apps, running production infrastructure on AWS, and leading a small engineering team. Currently focused on building products with LLMs and open to new roles.

## Key facts

- Name: Burak Özkırdeniz
- Roles: Software Engineer, Technical Product Lead
- Location: Istanbul, Türkiye (GMT+3)
- Status: open to new roles
- Experience: 8+ years across software engineering, product management and cloud infrastructure in media-tech
- Current focus: building products with LLMs, AI-assisted development, LLM-powered editorial tools, event-driven automation with n8n
- Engineering: PHP, Laravel, Node.js, JavaScript, Python, React, MySQL, REST APIs, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch), CI/CD, caching, monitoring
- Product: product roadmapping, AI product management, lifecycle management, data-driven decision making
- Education: B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Ege University (2014-2018); Erasmus exchange in Informatik, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Giessen, Germany (2017)
- Languages: Turkish (native), English

## Contact

- Email: burak@ozkirdeniz.com
- Website: https://burakozkirdeniz.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/burakozkirdeniz
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/burakozkirdeniz
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/burakozkirdeniz

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