Hi, I’m Rob Burke.
I’m a Toronto-based Client Partner and Senior Director at EPAM, where my life spans digital product development, AI & emerging technologies, cycling, public transit, photography, and fixing my sons’ robots with crazy glue.
I’ve been inspired to go on a bunch of surprisingly productive “Side Quests” recently and will document the “why bother” and lessons learned here.
Info about my past projects, and links to some of my contributions scattered across the internet.
My photos are on Flickr, I’m old school like that. Click thru that link to a little mini-gallery.
Contact me through LinkedIn, my projects are on GitHub, and I welcome the chance to connect by mail at rob at robburke dot net
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At EPAM I’m part of a global team of our key Canadian clients.
Before EPAM, I lived in the world of digital system design at Infusion, a technology innovation leader that’s now part of Avanade. Our focus there was emerging technology for FinServ, Professional Services and Resources industries.
Before that, I was a Microsoft technical evangelist (remember when that was a thing?!), based in Dublin, Ireland.
In grad school I studied artificial intelligence at MIT as part of the Synthetic Characters group at the MIT Media Lab, working toward brain architectures in multi-agent systems inspired by ethology, the study of animal behaviour. After graduating, I designed and built biometric interfaces (EEG, ECG and other) in the MindGames group at MIT Media Lab Europe in Dublin, Ireland.
Many moons ago I took this “holo-selfie” with a Gen-1 HoloLens while I was working on Star Trek and Chill. I’m going to leave it here cuz the HoloLens really takes the years off!