Andrew Burns
Senior Software Developer at Lightspeed Commerce
Casper, Wyoming, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndrew Burns is a seasoned Senior Software Developer with 18 years of experience building scalable, secure backend systems, currently working at Lightspeed Commerce out of Casper, Wyoming. He specializes in Ruby and Rails, having driven high-traffic platforms, performance optimizations, and security initiatives for companies like FetLife and Sign In Enterprise. His work blends hands-on engineering with operational ownership—managing databases, cloud migrations to GCP, and developer tooling that reduced onboarding and troubleshooting time. At Sign In Enterprise he cut onboarding from months to days and halved API response times through targeted performance and observability efforts. He also brings domain versatility from healthcare IT to elections systems administration, evidencing an ability to translate complex, regulated requirements into reliable production services. Known for mentoring teams and pragmatic architectural decisions, he pairs deep technical chops with a focus on developer experience and measurable operational gains.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
automation10
home-automation10
bonjour10
python10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
feature-flags10
webapp10
percentage10
rollout10
monitor10
bitcoin10
bitcoin-wallet10
responsive10
websocket10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ErebusBat/qmk_firmware
Jun 2021 - Oct 2023
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
firmwareavratmelusbatmel-avr
ErebusBat/togglv8
Jun 2021 - Jan 2025
Ruby wrapper for Toggl API v8
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
ruby-wrapperapitogglrubytoggl-api
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