Emily Berk
Senior Software Engineer at Branch
Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Berk is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends deep Java expertise with a strong focus on testing and security across the product lifecycle. She has led teams and driven architecture and delivery from roadmap definition to production, most recently holding principal and senior engineering roles at Veracode and now at Branch. Emily’s hands-on background includes building Spring Boot microservices, infrastructure-as-code, autoscaling/monitoring, and advocating industry-standard testing and error-handling patterns. An active contributor to open-source integration tooling, she’s improved robustness in the DDF distributed data framework by fixing critical bugs and adding integration tests for FTPS endpoints. Based in Arizona, she pairs technical leadership with cross-functional collaboration, often translating shifting business priorities into pragmatic engineering epics.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Systems Engineering at Barrett, The Honors College
Github Skills (8)
javas10
ftp10
solr10
java10
integration-testing10
junit9
osgi9
saml8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
codice/ddf
Jul 2016 - Dec 2020
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 136 commits, 185 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily fixed bugs and improved the DDF framework. The commits show the user addressing a NullPointerException in the SolrCache, resolving a UI issue related to location requests, updating tooltips in the Admin Console, and refactoring the FTP endpoint to be configurable. The user also added integration tests for the FTPS endpoint, further contributing to the overall robustness of the project.
codicecssosgisaml2framework
connexta/ion-ingest-api
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:63 PRs, 50 pushes, 36 branches in 7 months
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