Patrick Burke
Leadership Recruiting at Happy Feet for the Homeless
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatrick Burke is a seasoned talent acquisition leader with 17 years of experience building recruiting organizations for high-growth technology companies, from Apple and Square to Series B climate startup Watershed. He specializes in leadership, executive and technical hiring across AI, robotics, consumer electronics and startups, with a track record of scaling teams rapidly and placing executives who shape product and revenue outcomes. Patrick combines hands-on recruiting—implementing ATS like Greenhouse and leading end-to-end hiring blitzes—with advisory and investor roles in hardware-focused startups such as Orro. He also brings technical credibility from open-source contributions to prominent Android projects (Robolectric, Retrofit, Tape), where he improved test coverage and core components. Based in San Jose, he pairs mission-driven recruitment (helping Watershed accelerate corporate decarbonization) with grassroots community impact through a long-running sock-distribution nonprofit he co-founded.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at University of the Pacific
Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
http10
robolectric10
java10
javas10
android10
fileio10
file-handling10
file-processing10
rest-api10
file-access10
retrofit10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
square/retrofit
Oct 2010 - Oct 2012
A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed significantly to the Retrofit project, a type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM. Their work involved introducing Android-specific functionalities like a shake detector and related tests. They were also involved in refactoring the codebase with modularization, creating core, io, and http modules, and modifying the internal class `QueueFile` to get file length from the underlying file. Additionally, the user enhanced the project by adding the ability to inject a server call profiling interface and client error handling.
http-clientandroidtype-safekotlinjvm
square/tape
Oct 2010 - Nov 2012
A lightning fast, transactional, file-based FIFO for Android and Java.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Patrick contributed to the `square/tape` repository, which is a file-based FIFO queue, by initially adding the core code for the `QueueFile` class, including the Ant build file. They then refactored the code by moving the utility classes to the Android modules. The user also added the `ShakeDetector` functionality. Further work involved correcting log messages and updating the internal listener events to ensure the correct `TaskQueue` instance is passed.
file-basedtransactionallightningandroidfifo
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