┏━╸╻ ╻┏━┓┏━┓╻┏━╸╻ ╻╻ ╻ ╻┏┳┓ ╻ ╻╻╺┳╸┏━┓┏━╸ ┃ ┃ ┃┣┳┛┣┳┛┃┃ ┃ ┃┃ ┃ ┃┃┃┃ ┃┏┛┃ ┃ ┣━┫┣╸ ┗━╸┗━┛╹┗╸╹┗╸╹┗━╸┗━┛┗━╸┗━┛╹ ╹ ┗┛ ╹ ╹ ╹ ╹┗━╸ +------------------------------------------------+ | Download a PDF at https://burmister.com/cv.pdf | +------------------------------------------------+ ADAM BURMISTER Senior Product Frontend Engineer React / TypeScript / Design Systems / SaaS UX Ex-Stripe / Ex-Xero / Ex-Pinterest / Melbourne, full work rights I help businesses, big and small, build surprisingly great user experiences. Melbourne, Australia +61 (0) 494 653 981 adam@burmister.com https://burmister.com Australian permanent resident / NZ citizen Full Australian work rights PROFILE ------- Senior software engineer with 17+ years building large-scale web products at Stripe, Pinterest, Xero and BBC Worldwide. Comfortable across the full stack, including TypeScript and React on the front end, and Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP and C#/.NET on the back end. I have strong product instincts and a track record of shipping fast, intuitive interfaces that scale to millions of users. Career highlights include co-founding a venture-backed startup, working as a Senior Frontend Engineer and Solutions Architect at Stripe, leading development on bbc.com, and co-authoring IronRuby in Action for Manning. Most of my career has been spent at the intersection of engineering, product and customer experience. CORE SKILLS ----------- Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, ES6, Ruby, Python, PHP, C#/.NET, HTML5, CSS3, SQL Frontend: React, Redux, Next.js, Angular, Astro, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, Shadcn, Sass, CSS Modules, Knockout, Ionic, design systems, accessibility (WCAG), Vite, Bun, TanStack Backend and APIs: Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Zend (PHP), REST, GraphQL, webhooks, event-driven systems Data and Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, CouchDB, Redis, Apache, CDN/edge caching, CI/CD pipelines, build tooling Cloud and DevOps: Cloudflare, AWS, GCP, Docker, Git, GitHub Actions, observability, performance tooling Engineering Practice: System design, performance optimisation, A/B testing and experimentation, automated testing with Jest, Vitest, Playwright and Storybook, RFC authoring, on-call Leadership and Product: Co-founder experience, institutional venture funding, customer-facing solutions architecture, tech lead on the bbc.com homepage rebuild, mentoring, cross-functional work with Product, Design, Sales and Support, end-to-end product ownership, customer discovery, HCI-trained UX instincts Domains: Payments and billing, advertising, fintech and accounting, media, marketplaces, trading data AI / Modern Tooling: LLM application development, prompt engineering, agentic coding workflows, AI-assisted product development HIGHLIGHTS ---------- High-scale SaaS product engineering Shipped major user-facing surfaces in Stripe Billing using React, TypeScript and Ruby services, contributing to a complex recurring-revenue product used by businesses globally. Developer-facing frontend SDKs Contributed APAC, South-East Asian and LATAM payment methods to Stripe Elements, Stripe's public React SDK used by hundreds of thousands of developers. Growth and experimentation Built advertiser-acquisition product features at Pinterest on a React/Redux platform, partnering with Product and Data Science on A/B tests and experiment readouts. Design systems and frontend platforms Built Databento's first React/Radix/Tailwind component library, adopted across product and marketing surfaces and used as the foundation for new frontend work. Local fintech/accounting domain depth Built payroll and accounting product surfaces at Xero across both founding-era New Zealand and later US expansion roles, with experience in regulated, high-stakes financial workflows at both Xero and Stripe. EXPERIENCE ---------- Relocation to Melbourne and Independent Product Work / April 2024 - Present Family commitments - Melbourne, Australia - Relocated to Melbourne with full Australian work rights; now seeking a long-term senior frontend/product engineering IC role in a high-quality local product team. - Supporting my young family while continuing hands-on implementation of cloud infrastructure, modern web platforms and frameworks including Astro, Next, TanStack Start and Hono, and practical application of AI/LLM to web development tools. - Active personal projects exploring agentic coding workflows, edge runtimes and product prototyping with LLMs. - Building personal finance software with AI reconciliation features on Cloudflare's stack. Databento / Feb 2023 - April 2024 Senior Frontend Engineer - Wall Street market-data provider - Remote - Designed and built the company's first React/Radix/Tailwind component library, adopted across product and marketing surfaces and now the foundation for all new front-end work. - Owned technical direction for the front-end stack, including the decision and migration from Next.js to Astro for the marketing site, materially improving Core Web Vitals and lowering ongoing maintenance cost for non-engineers. - Partnered directly with founders and product on roadmap, feature scope and customer feedback; acted as the senior front-end voice in technical and product decisions. Stack: React, TypeScript, Astro, Radix UI, Tailwind, Node.js, design systems, technical direction Stripe / Oct 2017 - Feb 2023 Software Engineer / Billing Solutions Architect - Recurring-revenue product Remote, US/APAC - Shipped major user-facing surfaces in Stripe Billing, Stripe's recurring-revenue product, working across React/TypeScript front ends and Ruby back-end services. - Contributed APAC, South-East Asian and LATAM payment methods to Stripe Elements, Stripe's public React SDK used by hundreds of thousands of developers. - Stepped into a Solutions Architect role for about 12 months: a product- and customer-facing rotation partnering with Sales, Product and prospective customers to scope and prototype Billing implementations, unblock complex integrations and feed real-world product gaps back to the Billing engineering organisation. - Mentored junior and mid-level engineers, authored design docs and contributed to platform-wide testing, CI and architecture decisions. Stack: React, TypeScript, Ruby, Node.js, CI/CD, end-to-end testing, system design, high scale, customer-facing work Pinterest / Nov 2015 - Sept 2017 Software Engineer - Advertiser Growth - San Francisco / Remote - Delivered advertiser-acquisition product features on a freshly migrated React/Redux platform serving advertisers globally. - Worked across React/Redux UI, Node.js services and Python data pipelines for growth experimentation. - Partnered closely with the Growth PM and Data Science team on hypothesis design, A/B test setup and post-experiment readouts. Stack: React, Redux, Node.js, Python, big-data pipelines, growth, A/B testing, PM partnership ServisHero / 2015 - 2017 Co-founder / Head of UX and Engineering Venture-backed home-services marketplace - South-East Asia - Co-founded a mobile-first home-services marketplace operating across Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. - Raised institutional venture funding from regional investors. - Owned product, UX and front-end engineering end-to-end: set the product roadmap, ran customer interviews, hired and managed designers and engineers, and shipped the consumer apps and service-provider platform. - First-hand founder/PM/EM experience: prioritisation, hiring, performance, customer development and shipping under hard constraints. Stack: React, Ionic, Node.js, mobile-first, startup, marketplace, product leadership, hiring, roadmap Xero / Nov 2013 - Oct 2015 Senior Frontend Engineer - US Payroll, post-IPO - San Francisco - Built front-end payroll-management surfaces during Xero's US expansion, integrating with C#/.NET back-end services. - Owned client-side architecture, build tooling and front-end performance for a regulated, high-stakes product. Stack: JavaScript, C#/.NET, KnockoutJS, build systems, payroll Mojolly / 2010 - 2013 Startup Founder / CEO / Frontend Engineering - London - Founded a real-time social media filtering platform. - Raised funds from Telefonica. - Led a team of 6. - Designed and implemented front-end architectures for real-time web communications. - Contributed to the Erlang back end. Stack: founder, leadership, fundraising, real-time systems, telecoms, WebSockets BBC Worldwide / 2008 - 2010 Software Engineer / Lead Developer, bbc.com - London - Technical lead for the bbc.co.uk and bbc.com homepage rebuild. - Re-architected the system onto a new PHP/Zend/CouchDB stack. - Scaled the homepage platform to roughly 7 million users per day. - Coordinated across editorial, design and infrastructure teams. - Owned back-end services, front-end, Apache configuration and infrastructure tuning. Stack: PHP, Zend, CouchDB, JavaScript, Apache, public sector, high scale, tech lead Xero / 2007 - 2008 Frontend Engineer - Founding-era, pre-IPO - Wellington, New Zealand - Joined before the company had a permanent office. - Helped deliver core accounting features such as Invoicing during Xero's pre-IPO hyper-growth phase. - Owned marketing-site engineering and front-end build systems. Stack: JavaScript, C#/.NET, build systems, accounting PUBLISHED WORK -------------- IronRuby in Action - Manning Publishing - Co-author Co-wrote the book on IronRuby, the .NET implementation of the Ruby language. Topics: technical writing, Ruby, education EDUCATION --------- University of Waikato / Graduated 2007 Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Science (BCMS) Hamilton, New Zealand Second-Class Honours, Division 1 (2:1) Specialisation: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) +------------------------------------------------+ | Download a PDF at https://burmister.com/cv.pdf | +------------------------------------------------+