Andrew Burke
Software Engineer at Teleport
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Burke is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing tooling, currently focused on secure infrastructure access at Teleport. He prefers modern languages like Go and Rust and brings practical expertise in networking, connection management, and security hardening—evidenced by contributions to the widely used gravitational/teleport project improving proxy error handling and key sanitization. Based in Champaign, IL, he cut his teeth developing full-stack internal tools and course applications at UIUC’s CITL before moving into production-grade security engineering. Known for clear, pragmatic code changes, he combines systems-level thinking with a strong sense for operational clarity and developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
security10
teleport10
error-handling10
go10
networking10
openssh8
xmlrpc7
rpc7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:539 reviews, 270 commits, 678 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew's commits focused on improving error handling and message clarity within the Teleport proxy, specifically addressing issues related to direct dial failures and reverse tunnel connections. They modified codebase files, indicating expertise in networking and connection management within the Teleport infrastructure. The user also contributed to security by adding the '+' character to the key sanitizer whitelist and ensuring correct configuration, which strengthens the security of the resource names.
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rohankatakam/themeelreel
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:89 commits in 24 days
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