Mike Burton
Engineering Manager, Google Wallet
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Burton is an engineering leader with 13+ years building high-impact mobile products and current Engineering Manager for Google Wallet. He has led large distributed teams (≈50 engineers) and shipped award-winning mobile apps at Groupon and earlier built apps for Digg, TripIt, and OpenTable, with experience spanning serverless and recruiting products at Google. A hands-on Android expert and top Stack Overflow contributor in Android/Java, he authored Android App Development for Dummies and open-sourced RoboGuice, used by companies like Starbucks and Microsoft. Known for blending product sensibility with cultural and organizational leadership, he prefers calculated risks and nurturing constructive disruption to drive customer-loved experiences at scale. Unusually, his background includes leading a NASA software team and even flying a project aboard the Space Shuttle, reflecting a long-standing appetite for ambitious technical challenges.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (148)
google-guice10
ruby10
code-generation10
hierarchy-viewer10
esp3210
javascript10
typescript10
google-sign-in10
android10
documentation10
homebrew10
flowchart10
esp-idf10
arduino10
mindmap10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
emmby/StateSmith
Jun 2024 - Jul 2025
A state machine code generation tool suitable for bare metal, embedded and more.
Contributions:21 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
emmby/android-for-dummies-v3
Aug 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:177 commits, 1 PR, 44 pushes in 5 months
dummiessourcecodeandroidandroid-applicationapplication-development
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