James 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.
14 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
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.
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