Arthur Burkart
Independent Infra Platform Engineer
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArthur Burkart is an experienced infrastructure and platform engineer with 11 years building reliable backend and cloud systems for startups and scale-ups. He led infrastructure teams and shipped production-grade systems at Coinbase after helping grow Bison Trails’ blockchain infrastructure prior to its acquisition. Now working independently, he delivers short, high-impact engagements for pre-seed and seed founders—spinning up investor-ready demos and resilient backends in 6–12 week sprints. Arthur blends hands-on DevOps, Terraform/Ansible-style automation, and product-focused engineering, with a knack for making complex distributed systems feel simple for end users. Based in the New York City area, he pairs startup grit with institutional-scale experience and a dry sense of humor hinted at in his terse GitHub bio. His background in both software and biomedical informatics signals curiosity beyond ops, useful for data-driven decision making in early-stage products.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
East Asian Studies, East Asian Studies at University of International Business and EconomicsBachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Wesleyan UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at The University of ManchesterHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Marshfield High School
Stackoverflow
1,890reputation
240kreached
11answers
8questions
ansible
top-5%
jinja2
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
command-line-interface10
cryptocurrency10
automation10
hashicorp10
ledger10
credentials10
vagrant10
command-line-arguments10
azure-resource-manager10
fetch10
terragrunt10
amazon10
hcl10
jspdf10
terraform-provider10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
artburkart/terraform
Oct 2016 - Jul 2020
Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and combining infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 9 months
devopsinfrastructureinfrastructure-managementinfrastructure-as-codeaws
artburkart/gitpatrol
Jan 2015 - Mar 2024
The goal is to create a plug and play git pre-commit hook that works for a bunch of languages
Contributions:8 PRs, 21 pushes, 10 branches in 9 years 2 months
pre-commit-hookgoalpre-commitplug-and-playgit-pre-commit
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