Burke Webster
Principal Engineer at Root Inc.
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolBurke Webster is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Des Moines with over 20 years of experience building high-performing engineering teams and shipping resilient, observable systems. He specializes in driving large technical initiatives—most recently leading design and prototyping for a next-generation Go-based Order Management System that processes billions in orders and accelerating delivery through Temporal adoption. Burke blends hands-on engineering (Go, Ruby/Rails, distributed tracing, Protobuf, RPC frameworks) with strong operational practices like production shadow traffic testing and slow-roll experiments to reduce launch risk. He has a track record of reshaping roadmaps, introducing cross-language developer tooling, and improving observability to lower onboarding friction across orgs. Early in his career he built monitoring for supercomputing infrastructure and later pioneered remote work practices and large-scale search and analytics services, showing a rare mix of systems, data, and organizational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of New Mexico
English
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Github Skills (79)
temporal10
cli9
command-line-interface9
namespaces9
elasticsearch9
search-engine9
java9
html8
rake-task8
rest8
constructor8
ruby8
elastic8
rubynlp8
rails8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bwebster/zoom_slack
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Automatically set your Slack status when in a Zoom meeting
Contributions:41 commits, 5 PRs, 26 pushes in 11 days
slackzoom-meeting
summitcreek-kids/hallway-tv-automation
Nov 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:29 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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