# Sean Burke > Tech lead at Inductor Location: Whitefish, Montana, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/seanburke Experienced backend software engineer with strong academic and industry experience. Skilled in solving high scale challenges with Distributed systems and streaming platforms. Motivated engineering professional with a Bachelors (BS) and Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer Science with a focus in Artificial Intelligence from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ## Work Experience ### Technical Lead @ Inductor Jan 2024 – Present ### CoFounder and Senior Software Engineer @ GoNation Jan 2017 – Present | Remote Working on developing the API for GoNation which is used to power both the website and mobile app. Software is developed in Scala using Akka-Http and leveraging AWS. GoNation is transforming how people can discover locally and allowing businesses to promote to their surrounding areas. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Gopuff Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Whitefish, Montana, United States Serve as technical lead on the retail integrations team, which integrates the retail side of Gopuff (Bevmo, etc.) with the e-commerce side. Reverse-engineered the legacy system to build out very detailed documentation on how the system works. System consists of many Azure function apps (Typescript) and “no-code” data factories. Fixed several issues that affected product mappings, inventory counts, and others. Designed a new system to replace the legacy system using Kubernetes micro services built in Go using PSQL, Kafka, and redis. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Iterable Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Remote Worked on the User data ingestion team that built and handled all of Iterable's customer data at scale. Architecture consisted of a Scala application reading from Kafka and writing to ElasticSearch. Transitioned to a new team working on infrastructure around queueing technologies. Helped drive the migration of our legacy RMQ nodes to use Apache Pulsar. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Estimize Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote Working on Estimize's main software application across the entire stack. Main application is in Ruby on Rails, with other projects based in Scala and Python. Working on fixing application bugs, and adding features to the main app including adding functionality to the API, making the estimize data easier to work with, and incorporating a new data provider. ### Principal Software Technologist @ Pattern Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Remote Designed and developed algorithms for a new distributed hypergraph database system in C++. Specifically focused on the system’s subgraph matching part of the system. Took several concepts and ideas from graph systems and research papers to develop efficient and accurate subgraph matching and subgraph search algorithms to run in a highly performant distributed system. Also worked as a software consultant for clients, which included building a machine learning scoring system in a Python REST API for an up and coming mobile fitness app. Also included building graph infrastructure and developing NLP models for a Java application to analyze biotech articles in order for companies to use to generate leads. ### Software Engineer @ Localytics Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Software Engineer for the Backend team. Created systems for mobile app companies to interact with their users and provide analytics on their behavior. Implemented horizontally scalable systems leveraging Amazon Web Services, Scala Play framework, and the Akka concurrency framework. Built two Scala Play REST API’s from scratch that handle thousands of requests per second. Developed applications across several micro services encompassing the entire messaging pipeline, from customer request to user segmentation all the way through to delivery. This included push messages, in-app messages, and email. ### Research Assistant-MERS Lab @ MIT Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Performing research for the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems (MERS) Lab at MIT. My research is in reactive integrated motion planning and execution, focusing on the trajectory adjustment capability for motion execution of robots performing tasks in unstructured environments. ### 6.046 Teaching Assistant @ MIT Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Teaching assistant for the Design and Analysis of Algorithms class at MIT. Responsibilities included teaching a recitation section once a week, holding office hours, creating problem set and test problems, grading tests, creating recitation notes, and answering students questions online via piazza. ### Application Developer Intern @ JPMorgan Chase Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Debugged, developed, and tested an application that traders of the investment back would use to do risk management intra-day, on swaps, swaptions, futures, and bonds. ## Education ### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in EECS-Artificial Intelligence Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/seanburkemit --- Source: https://flows.cv/seanburke JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/seanburke/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22