Eric Burke

Eric is a Principal Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo!, Inc., where he is a lead developer on the Yahoo! Messenger team. Since graduating from Purdue in 1994, Eric has been building software applications on Windows platforms. Eric is interested in all aspects of the .NET Framework, but specifically WPF, Silverlight, and other client technologies. He is also particularly interested in figuring out ways to improve performance of end-user .NET client applications. Eric has spoken about WPF numerous times, including at Microsoft and MIX07. When not cranking out code or squeezing out the last bits of performance on his WPF apps, Eric can be found hanging out with his wife Jenn and their kids, Alexis and Nathan. He also enjoys coaching football, watching football, thinking about football, talking about football, and pretty much anything else that has to do with football.;)