James Burke
Website Developer And CRO Lead at Luxury Presence
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Burke is a hands-on engineering leader and product strategist with 14 years of professional experience and an 18-year history building websites, products, and digital platforms. Based in Philadelphia, he blends front-end craftsmanship and CRO expertise with organizational strategy, having led design systems, frontend standardization, and developer experience improvements at publishers like Penske Media and Alley. He’s driven measurable outcomes — faster launches, improved Core Web Vitals, reduced QA overhead, and an NPS jump from 0 to 57 — by combining technical solutions with mentoring and process change. As Website Developer and CRO Lead at Luxury Presence and a recent freelance practitioner, he still writes production code while shaping product roadmaps and conversions. Notably, he prototyped and co-led a reusable component library adopted across multiple media sites and has implemented AI detection and post-incident reliability practices. He pairs a B.S. in Computer Science with a knack for translating complex cross-functional problems into practical, ship-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (42)
single-page-application10
wordpress10
apple-news10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
isomorphic-javascript10
content-management-system9
building-blocks9
meta8
wordpress-themes8
typescript7
flarum7
python7
wordpress-rest-api7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alleyinteractive/irving-example-theme
Apr 2020 - May 2021
The Irving Example Theme's purpose is to demo Irving and WordPress working together, and offer concrete examples to developers looking to learn Irving's patterns and architecture.
Contributions:1 review, 50 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year
wordpress
alleyinteractive/civil-first-fleet
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
WordPress theme for the Civil First Fleet
Contributions:1 review, 62 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years
wordpress-themes
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