Randy Burkes
Co-Founder at Shopped
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRandy Burkes is a business- and domain-driven technologist with 12 years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience, now co-founding Shopped in Boston. He spent over a decade at Salsify as a Principal Engineer and team lead, streamlining digital supply chain information in fast-paced environments. Earlier roles at Oracle and Endeca sharpened his skills in mobile and server-driven platforms, and his engineering internship in remote mining operations reflects a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset. Randy contributes to open-source tooling for large spreadsheets—improving roo-rb's Excelx support to efficiently handle huge sheets—which signals attention to performant back-end data processing. He combines product-focused technical leadership with a hardware-aware Computer Engineering background from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who turns messy integrations into reliable, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Digital Systems, Computer Engineering, Digital Systems at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Github Skills (4)
xml-parsing10
ruby10
nokogiri9
file-handling8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
roo-rb/roo
Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
Roo provides an interface to spreadsheets of several sorts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Randy focused on enhancing the `roo-rb/roo` repository, a library for interacting with spreadsheets. Their primary contribution involved adding and refining support for Excelx files, enabling the library to read single rows at a time, optimizing for large spreadsheet processing. These changes include modifications to the `excelx.rb` file, improving the efficiency and capabilities of the spreadsheet parsing functionality. Additionally, the user made code adjustments for better handling of huge excel sheets.
xlsxexcelreaderxlssortsroo
rlburkes/salsify_orchestration
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:73 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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