John Burke
Embedded Cybersecurity Research And Development Engineer at Draper
Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Burke is an embedded cybersecurity R&D engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in processor architecture, RISC-V toolchains, and FPGA-targeted hardware-software co-design. At Draper he develops secure processor hardware and low-level board bring-up code, building on prior research with BOOM and Rocket Chip and a background in performance engineering for complex C/C++ and assembly systems. He blends Verilog and Bluespec hardware design with practical software optimization (C/C++, CUDA, Python, assembly) to extract maximum performance from silicon. Comfortable across Windows and Linux toolchains, he has hands-on FPGA synthesis/debug experience (Xilinx, Cadence, QEMU, gdb/Valgrind) and a persistent curiosity for language learning—he’s conversational in Greek and Mandarin. This combination of creative constraint-driven design and multilingual curiosity makes him both a meticulous implementer and an unconventional systems thinker.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B+, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B+ at Boston University
Github Skills (21)
risc6
bluespec6
pipeline5
electrical-engineering5
bsc5
cpu4
hardware4
embedded3
fpga3
piccolo3
risc-v3
simulation3
security2
policies2
processor2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jsburke/Conlangs
May 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
jsburke/Brahma
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:19 PRs, 210 pushes, 40 branches in 2 months
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