Adam Burke
Vice President Of Engineering at Cordance
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Burke is a technology executive and Vice President of Engineering with a 24-year software background and an MBA in Finance, focused on aligning engineering metrics and workforce strategies to drive measurable business outcomes. He has risen through hands-on roles into senior leadership at PeopleFluent and now Cordance, blending deep delivery experience with expertise in distributed workforce productivity. Adam pairs technical rigor—evidenced by test automation work on the Jython project improving cross-platform test reliability—with a pragmatic, metrics-first approach to team and process design. He is comfortable in both code and executive conversations, translating complex engineering trade-offs into actionable business decisions. Based in Raleigh, he brings a rare combination of formal finance training and long-term product engineering experience that helps organizations quantify and improve developer effectiveness. Colleagues describe him as equal parts software critic and irreverent practitioner, a leader who challenges assumptions while shipping dependable systems.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Web Engineering, M.S. Web Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (15)
windows10
jython10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
ssl9
locale8
java6
debugging6
errorcode6
gitbash6
io6
unicode6
numpy6
haskell6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jython/frozen-mirror
Oct 2015 - Feb 2020
A Mirror of hg.python.org (now frozen). Please use jython/jython.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 64 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to improving the test suite for the Jython project. They focused on identifying and suppressing failing tests on Windows, addressing issues related to locale settings, resolving line-ending issues in test files, updating SSL test certificates, and establishing the Java environment in test initializers. Their work involved modifying existing test cases and adapting them for different operating systems and configurations, thereby improving the reliability and stability of the test suite.
jython
adamburkegh/spm_dim
Jul 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 releases, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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