Burak Kayhan
Product & Platform Engineer (Frontend-heavy Systems Builder)
Istanbul, Turkey +90 (551) 457 97 45 kayhan.burak@outlook.com
Summary

Senior Product & Platform Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing and building distributed systems, realtime applications, and cloud-native platforms. Focused on building end-to-end systems spanning frontend architecture, backend services, infrastructure automation, and deployment pipelines.

Strong expertise in system design, developer experience, and performance-critical web and streaming systems. Passionate about virtualization, realtime media pipelines, and complex multi-service architectures.

Experience
Contractor Senior Frontend Engineer — Beko Europe
Mar 2025 – Sep 2025 · Contract
  • Built offline-first capabilities for a global field service platform used by technicians operating in low or unstable connectivity regions.
  • Designed and implemented client-side resilience architecture using Service Workers, IndexedDB, and caching strategies to ensure uninterrupted operation without network access.
  • Introduced synchronization mechanisms and local persistence layers enabling queued operations and eventual consistency between offline and online states.
  • Improved system reliability in real-world field conditions while integrating offline capabilities into an existing large-scale production platform.
Senior Full Stack / Platform Engineer — PulpoAR
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
  • Led the redevelopment of a browser-based virtual try-on platform enabling realtime cosmetic product visualization via WebView camera integration.
  • Architected a multi-tenant SaaS platform used by global cosmetic brands (Sephora, Flormar, Yves Rocher), enabling embedded AR experiences through a modular plugin ecosystem (@pulpoar/plugin-sdk).
  • Designed extensible frontend architecture with dynamic theming, reusable component systems, and SDK-driven customization for external integrations.
  • Built WebAssembly-based modules for performance-critical image processing pipelines powering realtime AR rendering in the browser.
  • Owned cloud infrastructure and deployment architecture on Google Cloud Platform, including containerized services, load balancing, and scalable runtime systems.
  • Implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with per-branch preview environments and isolated tenant infrastructure.
  • Contributed across frontend architecture, platform design, DevOps automation, and developer experience tooling with strong focus on scalability and maintainability.
Senior Frontend Engineer — Arçelik Global
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
  • Designed and developed core frontend architecture for an enterprise platform used by 40,000+ employees across multiple internal business workflows.
  • Built foundational systems including layout architecture, authentication/authorization flows, internationalization (i18n), notification systems, and reusable UI component standards.
  • Developed a customizable dashboard and widget system acting as the main entry point of the platform.
  • Improved consistency and scalability across multiple teams by defining frontend engineering standards and reusable patterns.
  • Prototyped a microfrontend migration strategy using Single-SPA to improve modularity and system scalability.
  • Worked with React, Redux, Saga, and Material UI in a large-scale enterprise environment.
Frontend Engineer — ODC Business Solutions
Dec 2018 – Jun 2019
  • Developed React-based enterprise dashboard applications focused on data-heavy CRUD workflows and operational business processes.
  • Built reusable table-driven UI systems and maintained large-scale administrative interfaces.
  • Collaborated with senior engineers in a team environment, contributing to frontend architecture decisions and feature delivery.
  • Strengthened expertise in React ecosystem, component-driven development, and scalable UI structures.
Software Engineer — Çözüm Holding A.Ş.
Jan 2018 – Dec 2018
  • Worked on industrial access control and security systems integrating hardware devices, RFID systems, and realtime communication infrastructure.
  • Developed Node.js-based backend services communicating with field devices over TCP/IP networks.
  • Built realtime dashboards and control interfaces for managing physical systems such as road blockers and access gates.
  • Integrated low-level hardware communication using native DLLs within Node.js for RFID and antenna systems.
  • Developed experimental React Native Bluetooth-based proximity access control system for automated entry workflows.
  • Collaborated in a small R&D team working across embedded systems, electronics, and software layers.
Product & Platform Engineering Projects
QEMUI — Virtualization & Realtime Platform (qemui.com)
  • Built an experimental virtualization and streaming platform enabling browser-based access to QEMU/KVM virtual machines.
  • Implemented low-latency video streaming pipelines using WebRTC, GPU-accelerated encoding, and zero-copy rendering strategies.
  • Worked with Linux virtualization systems, realtime media pipelines, and system-level performance optimization techniques.
  • Exploring VM orchestration, remote compute access, and cloud-native virtualization tooling.
Goliq — Football Analytics & Systems Platform
  • Built an end-to-end football analytics system combining match recording, player tracking, heatmaps, and video analysis for indoor football fields.
  • Developed frontend, backend (Directus-based), edge recording software, and Raspberry Pi-based capture devices.
  • Designed and physically built hardware enclosures and managed on-site installations including cabling and deployment.
  • Integrated cloud synchronization pipelines for match video ingestion and analytics processing.
  • Collaborated with computer vision engineers extracting player and game statistics from recorded footage.
Cezego — Commerce & Infrastructure Platform
  • Built a full-stack e-commerce platform and infrastructure automation system.
  • Migrated and heavily customized open-source Cezerin/Cezerin2 commerce stack to support advanced business requirements.
  • Developed a self-service provisioning system enabling automatic deployment of isolated e-commerce environments via web interface.
  • Built infrastructure orchestration services handling container deployment, DNS routing, reverse proxy configuration, and cloud provisioning on AWS and Cloudflare.
  • Worked across frontend, backend, DevOps, and platform engineering while managing full product lifecycle.
Core Expertise
Core Areas
Frontend Architecture, Platform Engineering, System Design, Realtime Systems, Cloud-native Infrastructure, Multi-tenant SaaS Systems, Developer Experience (DevEx), CI/CD & Deployment Automation, Offline-first Applications, Cross-functional Product Engineering
Frontend & Web
TypeScript, JavaScript (ESNext), React, Next.js, React Native, Zustand, Redux / Saga, Microfrontends (Single-SPA), WebAssembly (WASM), WebRTC, WebSockets, Service Workers, IndexedDB, UI Architecture & Design Systems, SDK / Plugin Systems
Backend & Infrastructure
Node.js, Directus, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, TCP/IP Systems, Realtime Device Communication, Distributed Service Architectures
Cloud & DevOps
Docker, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), GCP, AWS, Cloudflare, Load Balancing, Infrastructure Automation, Preview Environments, Cloud-native Deployments
Systems & Advanced Engineering
QEMU / KVM, Virtualization Systems, GPU-based Video Encoding, Zero-copy Streaming Architectures, Raspberry Pi / Edge Systems, IoT Device Integration, Video Streaming Infrastructure, Hardware-integrated Software Systems
Tools
Linux, Git/GitHub, VS Code, Figma, Jira, Shapr3D
Education
Bachelor in Aircraft Engineering
National Aviation University
Trainee Software Specialist
Ministry of Labor