Burak Ince
Lead Consultant Developer at Thoughtworks
Lead Consultant Developer at Thoughtworks, delivering cloud-native engineering, data platforms, and AI solutions for Fortune 500 enterprises across retail, automotive, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing.
Experience
Thoughtworks Experience
Major Retail Energy Supply Company
During a 10-month tenure as a Data Engineer, designed and implemented core RESTful API services utilizing Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CloudSQL (PostgreSQL), and TypeScript to develop customer, energy usage, and billing microservices with secure OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0-based single sign-on (SSO) authentication.
University Hospital
During a one-month tenure as a Data Engineer, developed a proof-of-concept system leveraging Cloudformation, AWS Lambda, Python, Amazon Comprehend Medical, AWS Step Functions, Amazon S3, API Gateway, and Amazon Bedrock to automate data extraction from patient reports and images, enabling automatic identification of key medical data and matching potential clinical trials for physician review and approval.
Major European Retailer of Consumer Electronics and Household Appliances
During an 8-month tenure as a Data Engineer, modernized IT infrastructure and developed a Customer Data Platform on GCP BigQuery, leveraging GCP, Cloud Composer, Apache Airflow, Python, R, Colab Enterprise, Vertex AI, Kubeflow, Jupyter Notebooks, Data Contracts, IAM roles, Google Identity Platform, Terraform, Polars, Dataplex, Medallion Architecture, Cloud Storage, and Looker to establish robust data governance, platform capabilities, and actionable data products.
Major Laboratory Devices and Consumables Company
Infrastructure consultant for 11 months, working with C#, Golang, Typescript, Terraform, Terratest, AWS (including VPC, Lambda, Lambda Edge, Fargate, ECR, API Gateway), MQTT, HiveMQ, IoT Core, Layer 4 Network Load Balancer, Layer 7 Application Load Balancer, mTLS with X509 Certificates, DynamoDB, XRay, GitHub Actions, and AWS OIDC Providers. Developed and contributed to the MQTT server and infrastructure for secure and scalable communication between laboratory devices and the cloud.
Major Automobile Manufacturer Company
Data engineer for 5 months, building an AI platform for connected cars using Kubernetes, Terraform, Terratest, Helm, AWS, ECR, Amazon Aurora, Kubeflow, KServe, KNative, Istio, Let's Encrypt, Seldon, PostgreSQL, Redis, Tensorflow Serving, Prometheus Stack, Keycloak, and GitHub Actions. Improved Kubeflow installation and integrated the customer's SSO system.
Major European Multinational Chemicals Company
Data engineer for 1 year and 3 months, working on a CD4ML machine learning pipeline and AI platform using Golang, Python, Asyncio, Aiohttp, Pydantic, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Typescript, Kubernetes, Helm, Azure Cloud, Azurite, ACR, PostgreSQL, Terraform, DVC, Mlflow, Dagster, Great Expectations, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Memgraph, Dash, ONNX, Tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, React, Prometheus Stack, Backstage, Azure DevOps, and Azure Pipelines. Contributed to the development of the main framework and subsections of the portal.
Major Energy Logistics and Chemicals Company
Lead consultant developer for 1 month, conducting an architecture and technology review for in-house developed trading software. Examined various architectural classifications (monolithic and distributed) with the team and decided on approaches to solve problems.
Major European e-Commerce Company
Data engineer for 9 months, building a fast serving layer using Amazon Redshift, Apache Spark, PySpark, Parquet, Delta Lake, Scala, Python, Google BigQuery, Apache Airflow, Databricks, Deequ, Amazon S3, AWS CloudFormation, Flyway, PostgreSQL, Java, Spring Boot, Open API, Open Telemetry, Kubernetes, Scalyr, Lightstep, and Grafana. Helped ingest data from different systems and optimize the data pipeline.
Major Automobile Manufacturer Company
Developer for 6 months, working on a header component for an entire application ecosystem with micro frontend architecture using TypeScript, StencilJS, Terraform, AWS, CodePipeline, JFrog, Verizon, and BrowserStack.
Major Cash and Carry Logistic Company
During a 12-month tenure as a Developer, designed and implemented an automated secrets loading and management system using Golang, Groovy, React, Redux, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, Consul, Ansible, and Jenkins (4 months), and engineered an SRE reliability monitoring tool to calculate and visualize service health metrics utilizing Golang, React, Redux, Cypress, Cassandra, ELK Stack, Kubernetes, API Blueprints, Docker Swarm, and Jenkins (8 months).
Commercial Mortgage and Financial Services Firm
Developer for 4 months, building a banking mobile app, microservices, and a build pipeline using Swift, DotNet Core, API Blueprints, Docker Stack, Jenkins, CentOS, Redis, ELK Stack, and Sonar.
Major Insurance Company
Developer for 4 months, building a loan application web page using React, Redux, Gradle, Spark Java, JWT, API Blueprints, PostgreSQL, Docker Stack, Terraform, GoCD Server, CoreOS, ELK Stack, Pinpoint, Traefik, Sonar, and Prometheus.
Major Car Rental Company
Developer for 1 week, building monitoring web pages with React and Redux for a rich interface for end users.
Healthcare Community
Developer for 3 months, building a community-driven terminology management system with Python, Flask, Django, Grunt, AngularJS, PhantomJS, Docker Compose, Apache Solr, and MongoDB. Developed a web page and REST API to facilitate monitoring, evaluation, and performance improvement across healthcare and public health systems.
Other Experience
Major Finance and Insurance Company
April 2015 – December 2016. Developed core banking customer portfolio web applications using GWT, HTML5, CSS, Twitter Bootstrap, JavaScript, JSON, and AJAX. Also developed core banking customer query and customer management SOAP web services using Java EE, Maven, Spring, SOA, IBM AIX, DB2, and Websphere Application Servers.
Software & Consultancy Company
July 2011 – April 2014. Developed core banking customer query and customer management SOAP web services using Java EE, Maven, Spring, SOA, IBM AIX, DB2, and Websphere Application Servers. Also, developed a data management pipeline using SAS language and SAS Data Management Servers.
Skills
Programming Languages
Java Specific Competencies
.NET Specific Competencies
JavaScript Specific Competencies
Python Specific Competencies
Databases
Cloud & Orchestration
Data Engineering
ML Engineering
Infrastructure as Code
Observability & Monitoring
Security & Authentication
Specifications & Protocols
CI/CD & Testing
Certifications & Learning
Credly
Verified badges & certifications
Microsoft Learn
Courses and learning paths
Google Skills
Google career certificates & badges
Specializations
- Preparing for Google Cloud Certification: Cloud Data Engineering (opens in a new tab)— Google Cloud
- Deep Learning (opens in a new tab)— DeepLearning.AI
Courses
- Preparing for your Professional Data Engineer Journey (opens in a new tab)— Google Cloud
- Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)— Google Cloud
- Build Streaming Data Pipelines on Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)— Google Cloud
- Build Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)— Google Cloud
- Build Data Lakes and Data Warehouses on Google Cloud (opens in a new tab)— Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals (opens in a new tab)— Google Cloud
- Sequence Models (opens in a new tab)— DeepLearning.AI
- Convolutional Neural Networks (opens in a new tab)— DeepLearning.AI
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects (opens in a new tab)— DeepLearning.AI
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization (opens in a new tab)— DeepLearning.AI
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning (opens in a new tab)— DeepLearning.AI
- Single Page Web Applications with AngularJS (opens in a new tab)— Johns Hopkins University
- Ruby on Rails Web Services and Integration with MongoDB (opens in a new tab)— Johns Hopkins University
- HTML, CSS, and Javascript for Web Developers (opens in a new tab)— Johns Hopkins University
- Rails with Active Record and Action Pack (opens in a new tab)— Johns Hopkins University
- Ruby on Rails: An Introduction (opens in a new tab)— Johns Hopkins University
- Build Your First Android App (Project-Centered Course) (opens in a new tab)— CentraleSupélec
- Istio Hands-On for Kubernetes (opens in a new tab)— Udemy
- Complete Guide to Protocol Buffers 3 [Java, Golang, Python] (opens in a new tab)— Udemy
- The Complete Traefik Training Course (opens in a new tab)— Udemy