Reid Burke

Leading a group of 7 engineers to build the platform for a new Yahoo Mail product.

• Rewrote app framework for Yahoo Mail to use latest React 18 APIs for streaming server response with 1 second faster FCP.
• Upgraded React and Redux to legacy-free context and latest versions while keeping all legacy UI working.
• Reduced pull request build time by 83% using faster test automation on Testing Library with greater test confidence.
• Rewrote internal Webpack CSS plugin for HMR support. Reduces CSS payload by over 92% with principles like Meta StyleX.
• Created a multi-process dev server for React Fast Refresh while allowing SSR markup to stay up-to-date for hydration.
• Removed existing UI component tests and replaced with tests which verify UI outcomes instead of implementation details.
• Reduced dev server cold startup by over 75% and incremental build time by over 90%.
• Introduced Storybook to collaborate on UI components with designers using tokens from a design system in Figma.
• Automated accessibility testing for UI components using Axe Core.

Contributed to the Yahoo Mail web frontend which serves 85 million monthly users with a React codebase created in 2014.

• Increased mobile web push notification delivery by 100% to 10 million per day with improved state management.
• Increased Mail Android app installs by 111% to 19,000 per day by identifying and fixing parser bugs saving $6MM per year.
• Reduced production Yahoo Mail frontend Node.js server memory usage by 50%.

Created tiny 8 KB consent SDK for GDPR compliance and TOS update across Yahoo, AOL, TechCrunch, HuffPost, and others.

• Collaborated with data teams to create anonymous reporting for real-time consent conversion analytics.
• Reduced size of standard Yahoo header components from 700 KB to 50 KB while improving security.

Contributed to Screwdriver, an open source CI/CD system, which replaced Jenkins at Yahoo.

• Reduced end-to-end deployment time across all Yahoo products by 20%.
• Led effort to move 50 Yahoo membership systems from Subversion and Jenkins to Git and Screwdriver without downtime.

• 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. Product was acquired by Blackboard.