Kelly Burke
Founder And Principal Recruiter at Work In Biotech
Constance Lake, Ontario, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKelly Burke is a PhD-trained scientist turned founder and principal recruiter with nine years of experience scaling talent functions for early-stage biotechnology companies and enterprise R&D teams. She has hired hundreds of biotech professionals across discovery, tech ops, manufacturing, and clinical functions, and builds data-driven talent acquisition processes including analytics and ATS optimizations. As founder of Work In Biotech she consults on full life-cycle recruiting, high-volume contract hiring, and recruiting technology implementation, drawing on hands-on recruiting leadership at Rubius where she helped grow headcount from ~30 to 250. Kelly also contributes to developer-focused projects (front-end UI and SEO improvements) in open-source SaaS boilerplates, reflecting a rare blend of bench science, technical product intuition, and recruiting operations. Based in Constance Lake, Ontario, she pairs rigorous academic training from Caltech and Emory with practical hiring strategies that anticipate scientific team needs and organizational scale.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry at Emory University
Github Skills (12)
nextjs10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
saas9
material-ui9
mongodb7
mongodb-database7
html7
mongoose6
express-ts6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
async-labs/saas
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Build your own SaaS business with SaaS boilerplate. Productive stack: React, Material-UI, Next, MobX, WebSockets, Express, Node, Mongoose, MongoDB. Written with TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 6 PRs, 87 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kelly primarily focused on front-end development, implementing UI updates and improvements. They added titles and meta descriptions to various pages, enhancing SEO. Furthermore, the user modified email templates and made minor text adjustments within the team billing settings. These contributions suggest involvement in both UI and potentially some backend logic related to email templates.
expressmongoosenext-uireactjsmongodb
klyburke/awesome-mongodb
Jun 2018 - Apr 2021
:leaves: A curated list of awesome MongoDB resources, libraries, tools and applications
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 9 months
mongoleavesmongodbmongoose
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