Steve Burkett

I have had a great time working with Steve. He is passionate, measured and a very thorough developer. He is able to take requirements (as minimal as those are sometimes), flush out technical requirements and dive in. He treats writing code like a craft and is unabashed in his fervency about building robust and maintainable software. Steve also loves to laugh and have fun. He has been a very valuable resource and a pleasure to be around.

It's been rewarding to work with Steve. Steve shows quality programming & design expertise in all his work, and is very good at coming up with simple elegant solutions to hard problems. He writes passionately to SOLID fundamentals. It's been a pleasure to worth together.

Sound judgement, seasoned, methodical, easy going, diverse, upbeat, very intelligent, integrity; These are all qualities that come to mind when describing Steve's personality. I've learned so much directly & via osmosis from working with Steve over the past year. He brings a logical, sound approach to complex problems that most always results in a high quality, maintainable, and satisfying solution for peers and users alike. You can count on Steve both professionally and personally.

I was fortunate to share an office with Steve at G5. I gained a lot of wonderful insight from his views on the production of quality software. He would always help each and every teammate in anyway possible; a true team player. The end result was a better team and a better product. A +1 from me for Steve!

Steve is the consumate Senior Software Engineer. His many years of industry experience give him a deep knowledge of software best practices, both in working on agile teams and writing code. He's also a quick learner - I watched him easily make the jump from .NET to Ruby with a short ramp up time. Steve is a great guy to work with and he brings a lot to the table every day.

Steve is a well rounded developer with deep knowledge of successful design patterns and writing proper object-oriented code. He is a pleasure to work with and a valuable member of our team.

Steve is very thorough and conscientious. He has a deep understanding of back-end technology - and is masterful at conveying these concepts to non-technical people (like me!). Steve is able to see the whole picture and approaches each technical challenge with a long-term framework. Steve is a delight to work with and a true team player.

I really enjoyed working with Steve. He is passionate about his work, and is constantly trying to explore new ideas in technology, process, design, and more. He has a vast wealth of experience to draw upon, yet remains open to fresh perspectives. He is a skillful developer across a wide range of technologies. Finally, it is a lot of fun to work together with Steve on a project -- he has a great sense of humor and a lot of positive energy.

Steve is a talented engineer with the ability to think out side of the box. Steve's extensive experience has given him the ability to tackle the most complex of problems and craft simple and elegant solutions. He is an entertaining team member and is fun to have around. I can strongly recommend Steve and would gladly work with him again should the opportunity arise.

Steve was a great addition to the Bend team. He would always have an eye for new technology to bring to the table and creative solutions for technical problems. He also showed the ability to work on the full stack, from tackling complex server behaviors to working on the UI layer.

I worked with Steve for a couple of years in MSN, on an incubation project involving highly-scalingservices, lots of rapidly-updating data and a tricky-to-get-right client-side experience. Steve owned the design& implementation of the client pieces and wrote a lot of high-quality code, was great at debugging problemsin a multi-threaded environment, and was a great partner in the design of the end-to-end system. Bonus pointsfor being funny and a great guy to work with and socialize with!

I worked with Steve for a couple of years in MSN, on an incubation project involving highly-scaling services, lots of rapidly-updating data and a tricky-to-get-right client-side experience. Steve owned the design & implementation of the client pieces and wrote a lot of high-quality code, was great at debugging problems in a multi-threaded environment, and was a great partner in the design of the end-to-end system. Bonus points for being funny and a great guy to work with and socialize with!" — Scott Cottrille, worked directly with Steve at Microsoft "Steve worked with me as one of the original members of the RealProxy development team at Real Networks. RealProxy was the industry's first streaming media proxy/cache, providing streaming and caching functionality for PNA and RTSP clients and an SDK enabling partners to develop their own streaming media caches. Steve served as an object oriented design guru for the team and contributed to the entire product cycle from initial design, development and test of the proxy to maintenance and partner support. His discipline and consistent advocacy of good development practices were invaluable for an application with the scalability and reliability requirements of the proxy.