Robert Burke
Co-Founder at lol term capital management
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Burke is a seasoned engineer and founder with 15 years building high-performance networked systems, automated trading infrastructure, and real-time online services. Based in Tokyo, he co-founded Shaira AI to push efficiency for LLM inference after leading constant-factor CPU speedups at Meta and running automated trading as CEO of lol term capital management. His strengths span CDN and caching design, nginx internals, Lua/Python/C/Go programming, and handling petabytes of video and market data with an unusual obsession for correctness and performance. Prior roles at Cloudflare, Twitch, Indeed, and messaging startups reflect deep production experience in multiprotocol IM, online games, and monitoring/filtering for low-latency systems. He pairs a mathematics background from the University of North Texas with hands-on systems engineering and entrepreneurial rigor, often optimizing overlooked constant factors that yield outsized real-world gains.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics at University of North Texas
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
sharpobject/yisim
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 137 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
sharpobject/codex_rules
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
let's play codex
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 8 months
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