Summary
Elmar Burke is a Staff Product Engineer with over a decade of experience building resilient frontend architectures and leading DesignOps initiatives, currently at Framer after a multi-year tenure at Bird. He specializes in React.js-driven product work—shipping features like a ground-up Inbox using React Hooks, GraphQL and a micro-frontend approach—and has driven Dashboard Modernisation and platform rewrites to enable scalable, multi-team delivery. Comfortable bridging design and engineering, he founded a DesignOps effort and helped create a unified design system, bringing Storybook, Tailwind CSS and React-Query into production workflows. Known for rapid, customer-focused execution, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic architecture decisions that reduce long-term maintenance costs. Based in Amsterdam, he combines practical training experience (delivering Angular workshops and web-testing tooling) with product-minded leadership to move complex UI systems forward.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) E-Government, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) E-Government at Hochschule Rhein-Waal
Fachhochschulreife, Fachhochschulreife at Mercator Berufskolleg
Dutch, English, German