Reid Burke

• Led web platform effort to combine Business Connect, Business Manager, and ??? into a responsive Apple Business SSR app with ???? DAU.
• Improved Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) 36% via parallel data loading; unified app increased adoption of Apple MDM by ???x.
• Improved ship velocity with 40x faster builds by migrating from Webpack/Babel to Vite/Oxc and migrating to a new deployment and i18n pipeline.
• Developed influence without control across teams and orgs (>25 engineers) to reduce backend process steps and standardize on React.
• Created AI agentic loops to build tools for measuring performance, browser automation, and orchestrating agents using parallel worktrees.
• Designed the platform for each team to contribute deeply embedded UI, data, navigation, and authentication to ship a unified web app based on React 19 streaming SSR, React Router 7, Vite 8, and Apollo GraphQL.
• Mentored team members to take ownership of platform subsystems; encouraged feedback across orgs to improve our shared platform.
• Built custom Vite plugins to unify separate React Router apps together with import maps which work on the client and server.
• Created runtime SSR composition server in Hono for ACL-based dynamic assembly of web apps, reducing leak risks and simplifying deployment.

• Led team of 7 engineers responsible for Mail web platform serving tens of millions of daily active users across desktop and mobile.
• Delivered key business metrics: increased mobile web push notification delivery 100% to 10M/day, boosted Android app installs 111% to 19K/day (saving ~$6M/year via parser fixes), and reduced production Node.js server memory usage by 50%.
• Upgraded React and Redux to latest legacy-free versions and React 18 streaming SSR; improved First Contentful Paint (FCP) by over 1 second while preserving 100% legacy UI compatibility; reduced dev server cold start >75% and incremental build times >90%; replaced implementation-detail tests with tests for UI outcomes.

Built Screwdriver open-source CI/CD (replacing Jenkins); reduced company-wide deployment times by 20%.

Developed automated browser testing system and visualizer for YUI Library running 120,000 browser tests per commit.

Developed platform for Facebook, Mint, and others to build secure JS apps for Yahoo’s homepage with 350MM monthly users.

Developed an education CMS used by 7,000 K-12 schools.