Emily Bourke
Server Side Developer at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEmily Bourke is a server-side developer based in London with nine years of professional experience building reliable backend systems across media and fintech. Currently at The Guardian, she brings production-grade server development experience and a strong academic foundation from an MSc in Advanced Computing and a First Class BSc in Computer Science. Her background includes impactful contributions to open-source tooling—most notably improving pandoc’s PowerPoint writer while consulting for RStudio—and production roles at Habito and Workday. Comfortable mentoring and teaching early-career engineers (from university demonstrator and tutoring roles), she pairs practical engineering with clear communication. Outside work she’s a programmer and musician, a detail that hints at a creative, pattern-oriented approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate, 575 points (out of 625), Leaving Certificate, 575 points (out of 625) at Coláiste an Spioraid NaoimhMSc, Advanced Computing, MSc, Advanced Computing at Imperial College LondonBSc, Computer Science, First Class Honours, BSc, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University College Cork
Github Skills (200)
table-of-contents10
language-server-protocol10
vim10
commonmark10
haskell10
guardian10
markdown10
client-library10
spellchecker10
rendering10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
markup-language10
emacs10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
emdash-ie/kilo
Dec 2020 - Feb 2025
Minimal text editor in (bad) C (with lots of macros and memory leaks)
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 3 months
badleaksmemorymacrosmemory-leaks
undergroundquizscene/wordcrab
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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