# Burak Kadir Er

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/burakkadirer

Passionately curious software engineer and story writer.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stealth
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA
• Architected and implemented comprehensive back-end systems for a renowned Turkish restaurant franchise, improving order processing efficiency by 10% using Django ecosystem
• Led technical audits and system optimization initiatives using Django Debug Toolbar and Sentry for performance monitoring, resolving critical bottlenecks while ensuring PCI DSS compliance
• Streamlined development workflow by implementing Docker containerization and orchestration with Docker Compose, reducing deployment time by 20% and system initialization time by 15%
• Designed and engineered RESTful APIs using Django REST framework to integrate point-of-sale systems with third-party delivery platforms, resulting in a 5% increase in online orders

### Software Engineer @ Radity
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Zurich, Switzerland
Worked remotely at Radity, which was a corporate member of the Django Software Foundation at the time.

• Leveraged Django and Django Rest Framework to enhance back-end performance, achieving a reduction in query costs and times for admin panel and API endpoints by over 35% through strategic query optimizations
• Implemented critical refactoring efforts, effectively mitigating race conditions by utilizing Django’s F expressions and database transaction commands, thereby ensuring enhanced data consistency and operational efficiency
• Set-up template projects by using Django cookiecutter for future projects, lowering the amount of time required to set up a project and configure it more than 60%
• Optimized Docker processes across multiple internal projects, achieving a 15% reduction in project initialization time and saving 30% more server space

### Software Engineer @ Akinon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Istanbul, Türkiye
• Engineered and maintained omni channel commerce solution called Omnitron using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework, driving a 10% improvement in speed of extension integrations
• Combined Celery, Redis, and Elasticsearch to enhance background task management and real-time search capabilities on multiple products, resulting in a 25% boost in analysis performance


## Education
### Intensive ESL
English Language Institute, San Francisco

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Özyeğin University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ksenofanex
- Portfolio: https://ksenofanex.github.io
- GitHub: https://github.com/Ksenofanex

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Last updated: 2026-03-29