Damien Burke
Board Member at Neverbust
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolDamien Burke is an engineering leader and founder with two decades of experience building startups and product teams, currently serving as Principal Software Engineer and Board Member at Transparent Classroom in Los Angeles. He specializes in establishing agile, sustainable engineering cultures that move teams from annual releases to rapid, iterative delivery while improving quality and lowering costs. Damien blends hands-on software engineering—bug fixes, feature development, standards, onboarding—with product management and customer-facing roles, notably stewarding OpaVote through a three-person cooperative. He has founded and scaled multiple ventures (Neverbust, Sell Your Seat, 52 Sketches) and led cross-functional transformation at companies like Voom and Sweety High. Known for pragmatic training in pair programming, TDD, and user-centric engineering, he also brings regulatory and B2B onboarding experience to product development. Comfortable switching between code, product, and board-level strategy, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with institutional rigor from an MIT CS background.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
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Github Skills (71)
rails10
sdk9
html9
javascript-client9
ruby9
mvc9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
user-activity8
raven8
link-checker7
javascript7
gulp7
angular7
sentry7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TalariaSoftware/iron_teapot
Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
TalariaSoftware/somebadapples
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:141 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
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