Niall Burkley
Principal Software Engineer And Team Lead at Meltwater
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolNiall Burkley is a Principal Software Engineer and team lead based in Boston with over 20 years building scalable backend systems and APIs across Kotlin, Elixir, JavaScript, and Ruby. He currently leads engineering efforts at Meltwater, driving robust architecture and high-impact product delivery while mentoring teams in engineering best practices. His background spans enterprise Java at Fidelity to customer-facing Rails and Elixir APIs for agencies and startups, plus a long-running freelance practice supporting clients like Viacom and AmericasTestKitchen. Niall is passionate about clean code and performance at scale, consistently turning complex problems into elegant, maintainable solutions. He blends hands-on implementation with a coaching mindset, regularly shipping test-driven releases and migrations for multi-tenant platforms. Outside core work he combines consultancy experience with product engineering, giving him a pragmatic view of both fast iteration and long-term system health.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University College CorkDiploma, Web Development, Diploma, Web Development at Graduate Training Program with Fidelity Investments
English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (103)
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openresty10
rails10
friendly-id10
permalink10
friendly-url10
plugin10
rails-engines9
mvc9
activerecord9
meta9
api-gateway9
3scale9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nburkley/nburkley.github.io
Jun 2015 - Mar 2024
dev blog
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 74 pushes in 8 years 10 months
jekylldev-blogdev
edenspiekermann/espi-dni
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:302 commits, 81 PRs, 167 pushes in 8 months
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