Danny Burkes
Director Of Delivery at Mechanical Orchard
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Burkes is a seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations across APAC, EMEA, and the US. He has led 100-person teams through high-stakes transitions—Pivotal’s growth, VMware acquisition, Broadcom integration—and drove a $45M ARR consulting business focused on cloud-native platform modernization. As Director of Delivery at Mechanical Orchard he now orchestrates high-precision mainframe modernization programs, blending enterprise delivery rigor with rapid technical transformation. Danny has a track record of founding regional practices from scratch, opening new markets (including Japan) and evolving consulting models to win enterprise credibility. He pairs deep hands-on engineering roots—early startup CTO and architect roles—with senior operational leadership, and has repeatedly retained key clients through complex reorganizations. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a pragmatic mix of developer empathy, commercial acumen, and proven ability to scale distributed teams across cultures.
17 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
AA, AA at Oxford College of Emory UniversityBS, Chemistry, BS, Chemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
obsidian8
zip5
parser5
formatters4
pong3
ruby-client3
jasmine3
rails3
ruby3
lists2
outliner2
database2
roamresearch2
ping2
mindmap2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dburkes/people_places_things
Aug 2009 - Sep 2012
Contributions:59 commits in 3 years 1 month
city-statephoneparserspersonaddresses
dburkes/acts_as_event_owner
Aug 2010 - Feb 2011
Contributions:57 commits in 6 months
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