Patrick Bourke

Current

• Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Past

• R&D Team Lead at BPS Inc.
• Software Developer at ExtenSys Inc.
• Software Developer at Semaview Inc

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Education

• University of Waterloo
• University of Waterloo

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Patrick Bourke’s Summary

Software developer who specializes in web and enterprise applications. Passionate about software quality and craftsmanship. Interested in software entrepreneurship and innovation and doing better with less.

Patrick Bourke’s Specialties:

Java, J2EE, PHP, Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Spring Framework, Hibernate

Patrick Bourke’s Experience

• Software Development Engineer

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Ownership of gift card delivery stack (Java, Spring, Oracle, Hibernate). Design and implementation of various features of core software platform.

• R&D Team Lead

  BPS Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  R&D team dev lead - this team produces the company's core software product. During my time at BPS, I also worked on a prominent customer project for a Wall Street financial services firm.

• Software Developer

  ExtenSys Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 4 months)

  Design and implementation of a J2EE system to exchange encrypted messages between electrical utilities. Responsible for overall project technical research and design. Technologies used included Spring, Hibernate, GPG encryption, Oracle and PostgreSQL.

• Software Developer

  Semaview Inc

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 6 months)

  Responsible for development of the online portion of a calendar application using PHP/MySQL. Also installed and administered the Linux servers which ran the application. Introduced and implemented several high-value features, including RSS feeds of calendar data.
  
  On another project, I co-designed and implemented a J2EE-based online training application using Spring and Hibernate.

Patrick Bourke’s Education

• University of Waterloo

  Hons. B.Math , Computer Science , May 2002 — April 2003

• University of Waterloo

  B.A. , English Literature , 1996 — 2001

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• My Website

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