Dermot Burke
Principal Consultant at Contino
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDermot Burke is a Principal Consultant and seasoned software engineer with over 20 years' experience delivering scalable, maintainable systems for clients including Lloyds Banking Group, the BBC, HSBC and DPD. He excels in architecting distributed, cloud-native solutions—designing payment platforms, Kafka-based streaming security libraries, and Spring Boot tracing/logging frameworks—while championing CI/CD, containerisation and federated ownership models across large organisations. A pragmatic hands-on technologist, Dermot has led API and microservice initiatives, introduced event-driven architectures and pushed test-driven practices into legacy stacks to improve reliability and delivery velocity. He combines deep Java and cloud expertise with practical leadership in cross-functional and offshore teams, and has a track record of replacing monolithic processes (e.g., Jenkins) with pipelines-as-code. Based in London, he pairs technical depth with strong client-facing skills and a penchant for simplifying complex problems into maintainable solutions. An early adopter of tooling and best practices, he often drives cultural as well as technical change in enterprise environments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma, Information Technology; Web Development, Post Graduate Diploma, Information Technology; Web Development at University of the West of ScotlandMA (Hons) 2:1, English Literature and Theatre Studies, MA (Hons) 2:1, English Literature and Theatre Studies at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (27)
jenkins-pipeline9
jenkins9
backend8
pipeline8
zipkin8
instrumentation8
java8
consumer-driven-contracts7
pact7
service-provider7
interaction6
distributed-tracing6
opentracing6
playback5
junit5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dermotmburke/hello-boot
Jun 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:65 releases, 195 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
dermotmburke/crawler
Dec 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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