I'm Shane Burke. For 15 years I've architected and shipped software at scale — from Ireland's national welfare platform to enterprise SaaS at Workday. Now I help teams make sharp architecture decisions and put AI to work where it actually moves the needle.
Senior engineering judgment, applied across the stack and across the AI shift — with a bias for shipping.
Designing systems that hold up: scalable architecture, clean boundaries, and the pragmatic trade-offs that keep teams shipping. From greenfield builds to untangling legacy.
Cutting through the hype to where AI actually earns its keep — developer tooling, LLM-powered features, and workflows that make good engineers dramatically faster. Practical, not theoretical.
Still in the code. Full-stack delivery and technical leadership across JavaScript/TypeScript, React and .NET — shipping production software, not just slide decks.
AI is making junior engineers obsolete and senior engineers irreplaceable.
The leverage is shifting to people who can architect the system and direct the machine. That shift is exactly what I help teams navigate — choosing where AI compounds your best engineers instead of just adding noise, and building the foundations that make it safe to move fast.
I helped build mywelfare.ie — Ireland's national welfare services platform used by millions of citizens — and have delivered software through consulting at Deloitte, enterprise SaaS at Workday, and product teams across recruitment, risk and energy.
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