Damian Burke
Software Engineer at WhatsApp
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDamian Burke is a seasoned software engineer based in Berlin with nine years of experience building mobile-first products for startups and large tech firms, currently contributing to WhatsApp and Meta. He specializes in Android engineering and technical leadership, having led an 8-person Android team at Onefootball and scaled apps to hundreds of thousands of users as the first Android hire at Asana Rebel. His background spans research-grade context-aware mobile systems to production features like BLE-backed eScooter control, emphasizing testable, modular Kotlin architectures and CI/CD. Damian pairs hands-on engineering with cross-functional roadmapping, hiring process design, and mentor-driven team growth, making him as comfortable shipping code as shaping platform strategy. An academic grounding from TU Berlin underpins his work, and he has a track record of bringing research ideas into practical mobile solutions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
swiftlint10
dynamic-feature10
android-lint10
dynamic-delivery10
danger9
checkstyle9
gradle-plugin8
kotlin8
android8
android-development8
appbundle8
gradle-play-publisher7
microservices6
whatsapp6
wifi-direct6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
damian-burke/rxblegatt
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:34 commits, 2 pushes in 9 months
damian-burke/ab-test-architecture
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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