Bill Burcham
Staff Engineer I at Broadcom
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolBill Burcham is a staff engineer with 17 years of experience building reliable, distributed databases and production platforms, currently working on the internals of VMware GemFire/Apache Geode at Broadcom. He combines deep systems and backend expertise with pragmatic product and infrastructure architecture, repeatedly delivering stability improvements and test-driven bug fixes in high‑scale Java-based systems. Previously he led platform and personalization engineering at Brainspace, championing functional programming practices (Clojure, Java 8 streams) and full containerization of services. Bill balances hands-on coding with process and team leadership—establishing best-practice guilds, CI/CD automation, and SLAs that accelerated deployment cadence. An active open-source contributor, his Geode commits focus on core reliability and transactional correctness rather than surface features. Based in Tucson, he brings a blend of academic curiosity (functional-programming evangelism) and long-term, cross-domain product delivery.
17 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizonacoursework in Graphic Design, coursework in Graphic Design at Portland Community College
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
apache10
java10
testing10
concurrency9
performance-testing8
cucumber6
javascript-framework6
unit-testing6
clojure6
leiningen6
javascript6
emacs6
nrepl6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
Sep 2018 - Apr 2022
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:344 reviews, 102 commits, 225 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Bill's commits primarily involve modifications to the Apache Geode codebase, focusing on testing and bug fixes within the core functionality. They made changes to ensure proper waiting for statistics changes in test cases, and corrected formatting errors. Additionally, the user fixed an issue related to handling transactions. The user's contributions are geared towards enhancing the reliability and stability of the Geode system.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
Bill/geode
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Apache Geode
Contributions:379 pushes, 168 branches in 3 years 9 months
wfsapachegeofencejavageode
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