Shane Burke

Software Architect & AI Consultant

Software architect and engineer with ~15 years building software at scale — from Ireland's national welfare platform to enterprise SaaS at Workday. I design systems end to end, own technical direction across frontend, backend and infrastructure, and ship products rather than slide decks. Lately I focus on AI/LLM integration and helping teams put it to work where it genuinely compounds their best engineers.

Experience

H3D Senior Full Stack Developer

May 2025 – Present
  • Building full-stack product features for an AI company, taking work from data model and API design through to the React frontend.
  • Integrating LLMs into production, user-facing workflows and shaping the engineering practices around building with AI safely.

Workday Software Application Developer

Aug 2021 – May 2025
  • Delivered features across a large-scale enterprise SaaS platform serving thousands of organisations and millions of users.
  • Worked the full stack with a bias for reliability, performance and maintainability inside a mature engineering org with rigorous review, testing and release process.
  • Nearly four years partnering with product and platform teams to ship and evolve software at scale.

Sim Local Frontend Engineer

Nov 2020 – Aug 2021
  • Built and maintained customer-facing React frontends for a global travel-connectivity (eSIM) e-commerce platform.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Software Engineer

Mar 2019 – Nov 2020
  • Engineered data-intensive risk and identity services on .NET, working with high volumes of records and the correctness demands of the risk domain.

AGL Energy Digital Developer

Mar 2016 – Sep 2016 · Jan 2018 – Dec 2018
  • Delivered customer-facing digital experiences for one of Australia's largest energy retailers, across two engagements.

SEEK Senior Web Developer

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017
  • Built and maintained high-traffic web experiences for Australia's leading employment marketplace.

Deloitte Senior Consultant, Technology Integration

Oct 2014 – Jan 2016
  • Helped design and build mywelfare.ie, Ireland's national welfare services platform, used by millions of citizens.
  • Delivered large-scale government digital services as a technology integration consultant, from solution design through delivery.

Ancestry.com Software Engineer

Dec 2012 – Sep 2014
  • Built features for one of the world's largest consumer genealogy platforms, working with large historical datasets and search at scale.

Earlier

  • Contact Point IT Services — Senior Web DeveloperOct 2016 – Dec 2016
  • pTools Software — Software DeveloperMay 2011 – Dec 2012

Selected Projects

Tourismo Founder & Engineer

2025 – Present

A social platform for driving enthusiasts — log drives, organise meets, and keep a private garage.

  • Designed and built a React/TypeScript PWA on a fully serverless AWS stack (Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, S3, CloudFront), provisioned end to end with Terraform — no click-ops, no Amplify.
  • Engineered privacy-first location handling: Privacy Zones trim GPS tracks on-device before storage, so a shared drive never maps a rare car back to an owner's home.
  • Built a custom Discover map rendering real route polylines decoded and projected onto SVG, so the artwork matches roads you can open in the app.

Addris Founder & Engineer

2024 – 2025

Property and area intelligence for Ireland — sold prices, planning activity and neighbourhood trajectory, beyond the asking price.

  • Architected a geospatial platform unifying 635k+ Price Register properties, ~155k commercial records, planning applications, national GTFS transport feeds, EV chargers and OPW flood-risk zones into one map.
  • Built the ingestion and geocoding pipeline on AWS — PostGIS on RDS, Redis hot-path cache, a Lambda ingestion fleet and MapTiler tiles — with an Eircode geocoding layer backed by a paid API and a self-hosted Photon instance.
  • Made a deliberate B2C → B2B strategic pivot after customer discovery: tore infrastructure down to near-zero cost with every dataset preserved and a one-command restore playbook.

Skills

Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Python, SQL
Frontend
React, Next.js, Vite, PWAs, HTML5, CSS
Backend & Infra
Node.js, .NET, serverless & REST APIs, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, Cognito, S3, CloudFront), Terraform, Redis
Data & GIS
PostGIS, geospatial pipelines, GTFS, large-scale data ingestion, Hadoop & NLTK
AI
LLM integration, AI-assisted engineering workflows, applied machine learning
Practice
System design & architecture, technical leadership, CI/CD, code review

Education

MSc in Web Technologies

Sept 2013 – Aug 2015

National College of Ireland

Dissertation: applying machine learning to big data via social-media analysis (1M+ tweets, Hadoop, NLTK).

BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering

Sept 2010 – May 2011

IT Carlow

BSc in Software Systems Development

Sept 2006 – Aug 2010

Waterford IT