Burak Şen

I work on Postgres at Microsoft, in the Azure Databases org. Right now contributing to an extension that mirrors data from Postgres into Microsoft Fabric).

Before that I spent almost four years at Edge Delta, a fast paced observability platform, where I got to touch a lot of the stack. I contributed heavily from the ground up to the company's agentic AI work, reworked batch monitoring into streaming anomaly detection over Apache Flink and Kafka, built a query language with ANTLR to search across ClickHouse, Elasticsearch and Snowflake, and contributed to the telemetry pipeline agent running on Kubernetes clusters of 500+ nodes.

At Getir, a quick-commerce company, I worked on the backend behind millions of monthly users. Main area of responsibility was managing several services (auth, gateway, etc.)that stands between customer and other internal services.

I started my career at ASELSAN doing full-stack work on intelligent transportation and smart city projects, with Vue.js, .NET, Redis and PostgreSQL.

I contribute to Apache DataFusion, a fast query engine written in Rust, with around 60 commits and counting since 2025.

I've taken courses related to distributed systems, big data and security. My thesis was about exploring an RL-based scheduler for Apache Spark.