Ryan Burke
Principal Software Engineer And Architect at Expedia Group
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRyan Burke is a Principal Software Engineer and Architect with over a decade of experience designing maintainable, scalable web applications and networked systems from Austin, Texas. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Linux, TCP/IP programming, and C/C++ with modern full-stack and test-driven development practices to deliver efficient, configurable solutions. At Expedia Group and previously Vrbo/HomeAway and Giganews, he has led architecture and engineering efforts that emphasize performance and operational reliability at scale. Ryan prefers mastering a few languages deeply rather than surface-level breadth, which shows in his work on real-time simulation and high-throughput services. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that balance long-term maintainability with immediate product needs.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Texas State UniversityTransferred to Texas State, Computer Science, Transferred to Texas State, Computer Science at Texas Christian University
Github Skills (57)
librdkafka10
producer10
nodejs10
kafka9
loader7
high-performance7
apache-kafka7
c-library6
resumable6
persistent6
kafka-consumer6
kotlin6
kafka-producer6
java6
json6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codeburke/node-rdkafka
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
Node.js bindings for librdkafka
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
node-jsnodejsjs-bindingskafkalibrdkafka
codeburke/requirejs
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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