Reid Burke

• Architected unified React 19 streaming SSR platform for business.apple.com on React Router 7, Vite 8, Apollo GraphQL, and Hono; consolidated multiple legacy products into one composed application; improved Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) 36% via parallel data loading.
• Cut full application build time from over 10 minutes to 15 seconds (40×) with custom Vite 8 plugins built on oxc-parser and Rolldown internals plus Webpack Module Federation interop; maintained full backward compatibility with Vite 6.
• Designed extensible platform (Slot/Fill UI system, data-driven navigation, shared dependencies via import maps and Node.js loaders) enabling independent teams to ship apps into a single composed application with minimal coordination overhead.
• Led cross-functional integration across 4 product teams to launch the unified Business product and shared Business web SDK, accelerating company-wide React adoption.
• Built runtime SSR composition server in Hono for ACL-based dynamic assembly of sensitive web apps, eliminating sensitive leak risk while simplifying maintenance.

• React Platform Lead: Upgraded React and Redux to latest legacy-free versions and React 18 streaming SSR; improved First Contentful Paint (FCP) by over 1 second while preserving 100% legacy UI compatibility; reduced dev server cold start >75% and incremental build times >90% with multi-process Fast Refresh architecture.
• Led team of 7 engineers responsible for Mail web platform serving tens of millions of daily active users; introduced Storybook for designer collaboration, automated Axe Core accessibility testing, and outcome-based UI tests replacing implementation-detail tests.
• Delivered key business metrics: increased mobile web push notification delivery 100% to 10M/day, boosted Android app installs 111% to 19k/day (saving ~$6M/year via parser fixes), and reduced production Node.js server memory usage 50%.

Built Screwdriver open-source CI/CD (replacing Jenkins); reduced company-wide deployment times 20%; migrated 50+ membership systems from Subversion without downtime.

Developed automated browser testing system and visualizer for YUI Library running 120,000 browser tests per commit.

Developed platform for Facebook, Mint, and others to build secure JS apps for Yahoo’s homepage with 350MM monthly users.

Developed an education CMS used by 7,000 K-12 schools.