# Kye Burchard

> Founding Engineer at Falconer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kyeburchard

Building the next generation of engineering knowledge tools

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Falconer
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
API Services
- Maintained a 99.9999% success rate SLO for Stripe's internal API Gateway
- Designed, prototyped, and productionized a high-throughput, statically-analyzable,
Protobuf-based API platform to scale for the next decade of both REST and GraphQL APIs
- Designed and ran onboarding curriculum for new engineers across the company

Dashboard Platform
- Drastically improved the performance of pages
- Built tooling to hold teams across the company accountable to performance goals and help them quickly find/resolve issues
- Designed and shipped a new GraphQL architecture

### Software Engineer Intern @ Stripe
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Dashboard Platform
- Fixed innumerable performance issues in the Stripe Dashboard
- Optimized the Payments page to load 2-3x faster

### HackMIT Logistics Head @ MIT TechX
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Director of Logistics for HackMIT 2019

Dev, Logistics, and Corporate Relations committees for HackMIT 2018

- Contributed to the development of the 2018 HackMIT splash page and sponsor portal
- Secured thousands in sponsorship funding for HackMIT and TechX
- Supervised 100 mentors, 50 volunteers, hosting for 300 hackers, WiFi, and packages for a 1,200 person hackathon

### Garage Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Redmond
- Designed and implemented a modular, scalable data architecture for an independent intern project
- Initiated and led are organization of team’s Git workflow
- Facilitated meetings and communication across 4 disparate dev teams to produce a working prototype

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, MA
Worked on a study using the Rhythm Badges in the Human Dynamics lab
- Designed an algorithm to improve accuracy of location detection for the Rhythm Badges project
- Developed a full data processing pipeline, from raw output to analyzable dataframes, leveraging multi-core processing for efficiency
- Coordinated compliance monitoring for 6 week, 80 person experiment

### Deputy Field Organizer @ Montana Democratic Party
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Summer fellowship with the 2016 Bullock and Juneau Coordinated Campaign in Montana. Recruited volunteers, assisted in volunteer training, canvassed 2,000+ doors

### General Merchandise Salesfloor @ Shopko
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Assisted customers, restocking and recovery, trained new part-time employees


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Great Falls High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kyeburchard

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Last updated: 2026-04-05