Andrew Burgess
Full Stack Engineer at ClassDojo
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Burgess is a Full Stack Engineer in Canada with 11 years of experience building scalable web applications and teaching web development. He combines hands-on JavaScript expertise with product-minded engineering, having driven performance and scalability improvements—from a 350% transaction throughput gain at Ampli to a 32,000-updates-per-second trading UI at RBC Capital Markets. As a former web development instructor and creator of 30+ video courses, he translates complex concepts into practical, maintainable solutions and mentors teams to adopt rigorous testing and scalable architecture. Currently at ClassDojo, he blends leadership experience from technology lead roles with deep front-end and systems knowledge to deliver high-impact user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Athabasca University
English
Stackoverflow
1,785reputation
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37answers
10questions
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Github Skills (121)
javascript9
esbuild9
sql9
jsonb9
postgresql9
mssql9
windowing9
orm9
mysql9
json9
sqlite9
counter9
nodejs9
microsoft-sql-server9
database8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
andrew8088/advent-of-code
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:67 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
andrew8088/dotfiles
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
My Dotfiles
Contributions:2 commits, 4 PRs, 171 pushes in 1 month
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