Robert Burke is a skilled software engineer with diverse experience in the tech industry, beginning education in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo from 2005 to 2010. Early professional experience includes roles as a Software Development Intern at Maplesoft and software testing at Research In Motion. In 2009, Robert held positions as a Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon.com, focusing on messaging middleware and distributed systems. Subsequent roles included a Programmer at Next Level Games and involvement as a Software Tools Developer. Currently, Robert works as a Senior Software Engineer at Google, contributing to the BigQuery Runtime team and developing data processing tools with Apache Beam.