Burak Basci — Platform Engineer & Software Architect

Burak Basci is a freelance platform engineer and software architect based in Bochum, Germany. His focus is developer experience: lowering friction and cognitive load in engineering processes through GitOps with Argo CD and GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes on sovereign infrastructure and Terraform.

Selected work

• Volkswagen AI Patent Search — hybrid BM25 + dense-vector retrieval engine deployed on VW's internal Kubernetes clusters.
• Hetzner k3s Infrastructure — GitOps Kubernetes platform hosting an agency's internal tools alongside their clients' WordPress and static sites.
• Sovereign Real-Estate Infrastructure — self-hosted Linux platform for a 700-unit property manager, replacing 15+ commercial SaaS subscriptions and cutting €20k/year in OPEX.
• PostPilot — Social-Media Automation — multi-platform content SaaS with Temporal + LangGraph.
• Coldmailing Lead Platform — CRM-lite outreach platform with NocoDB.
• LuminaRep — premium SaaS turning clinic reviews into multi-channel social posts.
• LLM Mail Triage — pluggable-provider classification + drafting service.
• Durak — six-platform Flutter card game, live at durak.burakbasci.de.
• ImmoPilot — multi-tenant CRM-and-mail automation for German real-estate brokers.
• Formal Document Automation — DOCX/PDF generator for invoices, payment reminders and DIN-5008 legal letters.
• Legal Evidence Organization — forensic evidence rooms with chronologies and source-bound citations.

Contact

Reach Burak via the contact page, on LinkedIn or on GitHub.