# Darragh Burke

> Senior Software Engineer @ Figma AI

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/darragh

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Product Engineering for AI
• Eng lead on Code Layers & Figma Make, Figma’s new AI design-to-code tools
• Primary engineer for AI Rename Layers and Text Tools (Translate, Rewrite, Shorten)

### Software Engineer III @ Tinder
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Web Engineer at Tinder working on design systems and tooling.
• Drove implementation of Dark Mode on Tinder Web, coordinating across product, design and engineering to implement theming across dozens of screens
• Worked on design system pipeline, built code generation tools to transform design tokens and iconography assets for Web, Android and iOS
• Contributed to CI/CD system for design-system using tools like Buildkite and Artifactory to automate design system updates across 5 app repos
• Built bespoke tools to improve design->engineering handoff, including a design system linter plugin for Figma, a design system flow chart visualizer, and a design->code translation tool
React, TypeScript, Node.js

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States
Engineer on the Babylon.js team (babylonjs.com)
• Owner of the Babylon GUI Editor (gui.babylonjs.com), a browser-based UI builder for Babylon.js
• Built aka.ms/islandpainter to showcase multiplayer networking in a 3D game
• Implemented browser APIs such as XmlHttpRequest in native code (C++, Java, Objective-C) for Babylon Native
Technologies: React, TypeScript, WebGL, Canvas, C++

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Redmond, Washington, United States
• Built a texture inspector and editor tool for Babylon.js, a browser-based 3D graphics engine
• Leveraged TypeScript, Canvas, and WebGL to enable editing high resolution textures at 60fps
• Led design of product from ground up, working collaboratively with PMs and technical artists

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California
Organization: Azure Networking
 • Worked on Azure's backbone network, sWAN with 100+ data centers across 52 regions
 • Member of a team developing a cross-platform router agent in Go
 • Developed integration tests that ran in a virtualized router environment as part of a CI/CD pipeline

### Software Engineering Intern @ Learn with Maven
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Irvine, California
• Worked as an intern in a 6-person team to develop a web and mobile app for a small startup
• Developed full-stack using NodeJS for the backend API and React Native and Redux for the mobile frontend
• Built a user account system using MongoDB and frontend login/signup functionality

### Tutor @ Varsity Tutors
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | United States
Worked as an independent contractor for Varsity Tutors, helping highschool students with
test preparation on a freelance basis. This involved spending approximately 4 hours
with each student per week reviewing practice tests and studying time management
strategies

### Research Assistant @ UC Irvine
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Irvine
• Created software for an exergaming research project at UCI focused on physical therapy for disabled children
• Developed a hardware-software bridge in Java between an excercise bike and the video game Minecraft


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/darragh-burke-875509163
- Website: https://read.cv/darraghburke

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Last updated: 2026-03-22