randallburkes.com

CTO & co-founder, Shopped · Raleigh / Boston

RandallBurkes

I build AI agents that help CPG brands win at e-commerce. Search and product data have been my thing for a long time.

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One person, modeled the way I spent twelve years modeling everyone else's products.

Name
Randall L. Burkes
Role
CTO and co-founder, Shopped
Status
Building
Location
Raleigh, NC (company HQ in Boston)
Classification
Business and domain driven technologist. Hands-on across architecture, infrastructure, security, and customers.
Domain
Consumer packaged goods, the digital shelf, product information, search, AI agents
Likes
Serverless, edge-first systems. Agents that actually do useful work. Messy enterprise workflows turned into something that runs on its own.
Stack, lately
TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, D1, R2, Temporal, Svelte 5, ClickHouse
Education
University of Alaska Fairbanks
GTIN
None. Not for individual resale.

Now

Shopped

An AI agent platform for consumer packaged goods brands. Our agents watch the digital shelf, keep product content accurate, and do the cross-functional work that usually gets lost between brand, e-commerce, and ops teams.

I co-founded Shopped in 2026 with Josh Silverman and Chris Davies. The company is based in Boston, and I work out of our Raleigh office. The pitch, in one line: AI agents built for how commerce teams actually work.

shopped.com

Change log

Newest first.

  1. 2026 – now

    Shopped CTO, co-founder

    Agents for CPG brands on an all-Cloudflare backend. Workers for Platforms, one tenant worker per org, Temporal for anything long-running. I own architecture, infrastructure, and security, and I still sit with customers.

  2. 2013 – 2025

    Salsify Principal Engineer, Team Lead

    More than twelve years on product information management and the plumbing behind how brands get their products online. Built faceted search on Elasticsearch, led teams, and learned the unglamorous parts of making supply-chain data agree with itself.

  3. 2012 – 2013

    Oracle Software Engineer II

    Integrated commerce platform for mobile web and iOS. Built a framework for server-driven styling and content in native apps.

  4. 2010 – 2012

    Endeca Software Engineer

    Application and mobile development at the faceted-search company Oracle went on to buy. Where search and product data became my thing.

  5. 2009

    Teck Resources Engineering Intern

    Process controls at a remote gold camp. Designed systems to keep milling equipment reliable. Still the best mental model I have for a pipeline.

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