Tim Burke
Staff Engineer, AI Enablement at The New York Times
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTim Burke is a Staff Engineer specializing in AI enablement and platform infrastructure with 11 years of experience building systems that scale from zero to billions of requests. He has driven reliability and developer productivity across news, media, and SaaS organizations including The New York Times, CNN, and Aha!, embedding with teams to fix the real frustrations that wake people up at 3am. Tim focuses on making LLMs useful for real users, reducing on-call noise through resilient architecture, and finding performance wins that improve systems by orders of magnitude. His background spans front-end UX roles to senior platform architect work, giving him a practical full-stack perspective on developer experience. Based in Ithaca, NY, he pairs production-first engineering with a playful team culture—yes, he still puts kittens on pull requests.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
beautifier10
javascript9
deploying9
python9
kubectl9
css9
runner9
nodejs9
templating9
html8
gcp8
continuous-testing8
hubot7
rocket7
kubernetes6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
timothyeburke/bot
Dec 2015 - May 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
timothyeburke/mo-dashboard
Jul 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:35 commits, 31 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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