Alex Burns
Principal Software Engineer at Redo
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Burns is a Principal Software Engineer based in Salt Lake City with eight years of experience building high-performance systems and leading performance-focused teams. He progressed rapidly through engineering roles at Clearwater Analytics and Lucid Software, where he served as Performance Team Lead before joining Redo in a senior architectural role. Alex combines hands-on coding proficiency—recently exploring Python—with a collaborative, teaching-minded leadership style that emphasizes measurable system improvements. His academic foundation is a BS in Computer Science, magna cum laude from the University of Utah, reflecting strong technical grounding. Known for a positive, growth-oriented approach, he excels at turning performance bottlenecks into scalable solutions while mentoring peers. Outside of work he’s an avid learner who blends practical engineering with a curiosity for new languages and tools.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahHigh School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Murray High School
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Github Skills (6)
scroll9
python5
anki5
azerothcore5
mason4
vector4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alexmburns/scroll-phat-hd
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Pyhthon Scripts for Pimoroni Scroll pHat HD
Contributions:28 commits, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
pythonpimoroniphatscroll
alexmburns/Games
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
Games
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
gamegamesazerothcorezonesmason
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