Michael Burkman
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Rocket Money (formerly Truebill)
Takoma Park, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Burkman is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience building maintainable, type-safe systems and improving engineering practices at companies like Rocket Money, Upside Business Travel, and Red Hat. He blends backend rigor with pragmatic frontend delivery, mentors junior engineers, and repeatedly leads efforts to modernize legacy systems and processes. Passionate about language theory and strong typing, he pushes for clear documentation and engineering discipline while avoiding jargon and half-measures. Based in Takoma Park, MD, he brings a defense-and-enterprise background from Raytheon and KEYW to consumer fintech, offering a rare mix of operational maturity and hands-on craftsmanship.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Loyola College in Maryland
English
Github Skills (117)
gif-animation10
emoji10
testing10
animated10
visual-studio10
admin-interface10
javascript10
animation10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
giphy10
nodejs10
csharp10
mongodb10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MikeyBurkman/party-party-party
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Turn a source image into an animated party emoji
Contributions:59 commits, 26 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 2 months
emojipartyanimated
MikeyBurkman/rhmap-mongo-express
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 38 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 3 months
expressjsmongoexpressmongo-expressnodejs
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