BURAK DURUKAN

Backend Developer | Jan 2021 - Jun 2026

Beyn Cloud Teknolojileri A.Ş. (Beyn Cloud Technologies Inc.) — a Softquo company

Novus (Sportsbook brand) | Scrum Teams | 3+ years;

• Developed and maintained Laravel applications across multiple versions, including production work with Laravel 11, for high-traffic sportsbook services.
• Designed and maintained REST APIs and backend services using Laravel components for various sportsbook and head-office projects.
• Worked with PHP 7.4–8.4 across projects using different PHP versions.
• Gained practical experience with Docker containerization on Windows.

Xpress Gaming (Aggregator brand) | Operations Team | ~2 years;

• Contributed to business-critical aggregator services built on the Phalcon framework.
• Worked on both provider/product-side and client-side integrations, including automated testing of customer-owned integrations.

Cross-cutting / Additional;

• Participated in structured code reviews: both giving and receiving reviews, with a focus on coding standards, maintainability, and improvement opportunities.
• Worked within established CI/CD workflows: isolated feature branches, branch synchronization, and standard delivery practices.
• Performed developer-side API and integration testing before and after task delivery using Postman and custom scripts; reviewed and contributed to automated tests for customer integrations with aggregator systems.
• Worked with Swoole, Elasticsearch and Graylog in production systems.
• Applied a disciplined refactoring approach: modified or modernized legacy code with attention to performance, current technologies, and clean coding principles.
• Applied database and application-level performance optimization, including reducing individual legacy processes from 30+ minutes to under 30 seconds.

PHP Developer | Aug 2014 - Dec 2020 (full-time) | Jan 2021 - Nov 2025 (outsource consultant)

Tekrom Teknoloji A.Ş. (Tekrom Technology Inc.)

(From Jan 2021, continued as an off-hour outsource consultant with the knowledge and consent of Beyn Cloud.)

tsoft.club / tsoftclub.com (now deprecated)

• Developed and maintained the full lifecycle of tsoftclub.com — a customer payment/information portal and internal staff ERP/Back-Office system — from initial build through ongoing updates until its retirement.
• Customer side: Built a multilingual customer portal for service packages, billing, linked services, payment tracking, and automated payment-related workflows, with email/SMS notifications and staff-managed announcements.
• Admin side: Delivered a broad ERP/Back-Office used by Tekrom staff, acting as a central data hub across the company's products — exchanging data with T-Soft e-commerce sites and other Tekrom systems, accessing cPanel APIs and e-commerce administration panels and database layers to automate daily operations and generate reports.
• Implemented authentication and custom authorization mechanisms with user-group-based permissions and dynamic menus/links; used cron jobs heavily to validate system data and cross-system consistency.
• Managed e-commerce (T-Soft) integrations: server health checks, automated backup monitoring, usage monitoring, database structure checks, automated demo/live site provisioning, master-branch merges from the e-commerce repo, pre-upgrade backups, FTP data retrieval, admin-panel notification/ad management, bulk code patches, and license/application tracking.
• Integrated with external services and APIs including SoftLayer, VMware, AWS S3, payment providers (MasterPass, Virtual POS), SMS gateways (InfoBIP/EkoMesaj), and the GitHub API; also developed automated bots to retrieve top-level domain information from IANA and exchange rates from the CBRT (TCMB) and bank websites.
• DevOps: Worked with Docker-hosted environments and their APIs/CLIs as part of the transition from cPanel-based operations to Docker infrastructure; applied detailed database performance practices (growth forecasting, data relationships, indexing, logging, back-ups) and built self-archiving/data-maintenance systems as data volume grew.
• Frontend & Application Development: Evolved from Smarty (PHP template engine) to a fully AngularJS 1-based Single Page Application with Bootstrap and AdminLTE3; initially used Doctrine for database management, later replaced it with custom-built database classes for new development while refactoring legacy services. Developed centralized logging and audit mechanisms to support monitoring and traceability across the system.

Individual Consultant - Mathematical Modeling Specialist | Jul 2018 - Nov 2018

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

(Undertaken with the knowledge and permission of Tekrom, during full-time employment there.)

• Total Factor Productivity (TFP) Pilot 2: Contributed to the design and development of a digital supply-chain model for the garment industry, building on the findings and roadmap of the Pilot 1 needs-assessment study; reviewed the existing software components and project progress as part of the Pilot 2 review process.
• HG-Hub (Garment-Hub): Contributed to the development of a multilingual web-based prototype platform for communication and interaction among garment-industry stakeholders. Helped shape the system's development direction through meetings with IHKIB (Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters' Association) and sector representatives. The system was designed for international use and short-term expansion of its functionality and data scope; the prototype was brought to a working state by the end of the project, with Turkish and English user manuals prepared with a strong focus on UI/UX.
• Technology: The development was built around PHPrunner 9.8, using its proprietary template engine and ORM/database structures, alongside custom JavaScript development.