Damien Burke
Senior Software Engineer at Thrive Global
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolDamien Burke is a Senior Software Engineer based in Ireland with nearly 20 years of software experience and a decade-plus track record in senior technical and people leadership roles. He has progressed from hands-on engineering to principal and staff positions at firms including Overstock.com, tZERO Group, Beyond, Inc., and now Thrive Global, consistently owning architecture and delivery for complex systems. Damien blends deep backend and systems experience with team coaching, having led development teams through multi-year platform evolutions and production scaling. He brings particular strength in translating business needs into pragmatic, maintainable engineering solutions and has a history of stepping into thorny legacy problems to drive measurable improvement. Educated at the University of Galway (B.Sc. Information Technology), he pairs commercial pragmatism with a long-term commitment to engineering craft. Colleagues would note his steady leadership during transitions and his appetite for solving systemic technical debt rather than just shipping features.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Information Technology, B.Sc Information Technology at University of GalwayBallyshannon, Co Donegal, Ireland
Github Skills (77)
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backend9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
damienburke/damienburke.github.io
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 month
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damienburke/c4sg-services
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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