Alan Burlison
Consulting Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
High Peak, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAlan Burlison is a seasoned systems-focused software engineer with 13+ years at Oracle and a 30+ year career grounding in UNIX, C/C++ and OS-level engineering. Currently a Consulting Member of Technical Staff in Oracle Labs, he works on advanced JVM technology and cloud integration, having previously led Solaris tooling, standards conformance, performance monitoring and the Java-to-OS interface. His background spans low-level OS development, application architecture and technical project leadership across Sun/Oracle and earlier telecom and aerospace projects, giving him deep expertise in performance, reliability and platform interoperability. He has hands-on experience building tooling for legal due diligence and open-source releases, plus a history of bringing object-oriented practices and diagnostics to legacy C++ systems. Based in the High Peak, England, he combines pragmatic engineering with a taste for solving thorny systems problems that often lurk behind user-facing features.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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20answers
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Github Skills (103)
firefox-addon10
zinc10
ublock-origin10
concurrency10
streaming10
thunderbird10
javascript10
reactive10
chromium10
akka10
firefox10
high-performance10
sbt-plugin10
concurrent10
browser-extension10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
balrog-kun/ws2811-multi
Dec 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year 5 months
sbt/sbt
Nov 2017 - Feb 2023
sbt, the interactive build tool
Contributions:5 comments, 3 issues in 5 years 4 months
zincsbt-pluginscalasbtbuild-tool
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