Dave Burke
CTO at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Burke is a seasoned technology leader and tinkerer with nearly three decades of engineering roots and eight years framed as a senior software executive in the Bay Area. Currently CTO at Arc Institute and serving as an advisor to Google’s Android teams, he brings deep product and platform experience from two decades at Google, including VP of Engineering for Android. He combines startup grit—co-founding and architecting Voxpilot’s voice media systems—with enterprise-scale leadership, shepherding large distributed systems and developer ecosystems. His background spans electronic and biomedical engineering (UCD) and hands-on maker projects, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving. Known for marrying technical depth with product judgment, he quietly focuses on developer experience and platform reliability rather than flashy demos. Based in San Francisco, he balances strategic leadership with ongoing personal projects that keep him close to code and hardware.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BE MEngSc Electronic Engineering, BE MEngSc Electronic Engineering at University College Dublin
Github Skills (3)
jetpack-compose9
kotlin8
android7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
daveyburke/PC-12-Performance-Monitor
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Pilatus PC-12NG avionics monitoring app displaying calculated max cruise torque, fuel flow, and airspeed
Contributions:1 release, 154 commits, 123 pushes in 2 months
androidavionicsjetpack-composekotlinpc-12
daveyburke/pixelbot
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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