Burcu Körükcü

Senior Data Engineer

About Me


Hi! I'm a Senior Data Engineer based in Berlin.

I specialize in building and managing scalable data infrastructure, with a strong background in ETL workflows, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and big data technologies like Spark and Kafka.

I thrive on transforming complex, raw data into structured, actionable insights and enjoy designing robust systems that power analytics and data science.

When I'm not designing data systems, here's what I enjoy:

Doing Yoga
Enjoying long walks
Exploring new countries
Writing (see my blog!)
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Toolkit & Skills


Programming & Data

Python PySpark SQL

Cloud Platforms

AWS (S3, EC2, IAM, Athena, Glue) GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub) Azure (Synapse, Data Lake, DevOps)

Data Engineering & Orchestration

Dagster Airbyte Kafka Airflow Hadoop Hive

Data Warehousing & BI

Data Modeling Architecture & Design PowerBI Superset

DevOps & Infrastructure

Linux Git Docker Kubernetes Bitbucket

Databases

MongoDB PostgreSQL MSSQL

Work Experience


Data Engineer

Markt-Pilot | Mar 2025 - Present

  • Created/Designed ETL pipelines on Databricks from the ground up using Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (formerly Delta Live Tables), combining materialized views for full refreshes with CDC-based incremental ingestion to build self-healing data flows as the foundational data platform.
  • Implemented Infrastructure-as-Code via Databricks Asset Bundles and established Unity Catalog–based governance, enabling version-controlled deployments and secure cross-team data sharing across engineering, analytics, and BI groups.
  • Developing and managing ETL workflows using Dagster, Airbyte, and Apache Spark for scalable and resilient data processing.
  • Transforming nested NoSQL structures (MongoDB) into structured, analytics-ready formats.
  • Designing and maintaining Lakehouse storage layers (Bronze, Silver, Gold) with modular IO managers and SQL table traits.
  • Building cloud-native data infrastructure leveraging AWS (S3, EC2, IAM).
  • Orchestrating and deploying workloads on Kubernetes.
  • Developing automated data quality checks in Dagster and improved reliability across data pipelines. Standardized metadata and table schemas to enhance traceability, governance, and overall pipeline transparency..

Big Data Engineer

Bentego (Consultant for Vodafone) | Oct 2023 - Feb 2025

  • Managing pipelines and CI/CD (Apache Airflow, Bitbucket, Jenkins).
  • Orchestrated the migration of Kafka streaming flow between servers.
  • Processing data from different sources using Python, MongoDB, SQL.
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting with real-time data flows (Apache Kafka, Spark, Phoenix).
  • Created dashboards for data flows and cluster monitoring with Python, Airflow and Superset.

Data Engineer

Borusan Otomotiv | Jan 2023 - Oct 2023

  • Created ETL/ELT pipelines on MS Azure (Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Blob Storage).
  • Data Modeling, Design and Warehousing, Ad Hoc Reporting.
  • Implemented a customer segmentation project (MSSQL, Azure Synapse, PowerBI).
  • Created interactive dashboards for sales, operation, finance and marketing teams on PowerBI.

Data Scientist

Borusan Otomotiv | Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Developed car matching system using NLP libraries.
  • Developed a vehicle recommendation system.
  • Weekly dynamic dashboards (Market Analysis) with Power BI.
  • Web scraping (BeautifulSoup and Selenium).
  • Wrote Python scripts for automated reports and created BI Dashboards.

My Writing


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Education & Certifications


BSc, Computer Engineering

Izmir University Of Economics | Izmir, Turkey

(Full Scholarship, 100% English)