Brent Burgoyne
Principal Software Engineer at CHG Healthcare
Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Burgoyne is a Principal Software Engineer based in Utah with 16 years building and leading teams around large-scale SaaS applications. He combines hands-on full-stack development with engineering leadership, having progressed from web developer and consultant roles to manager and co-founder/CTO experience before his current principal role at CHG Healthcare. Brent has contributed to prominent open-source projects like Instructure’s Canvas LMS, improving front-end UX and tricky date/time timezone handling in rich text and UI components. Known for learning quickly and prioritizing maintainable, high-quality software, he brings both product-minded pragmatism and deep UI/front-end expertise to complex enterprise systems. An unexpected strength is his marketing background, which helps him translate technical work into clear business value and user-centered outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Business, Business at Utah State UniversityCertificate, Computer Technology, Certificate, Computer Technology at Davis Applied Technology CollegeThe University of Utah
English
Github Skills (7)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
coffeescript9
html8
css7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Aug 2015 - Dec 2019
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:206 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brent contributed to the front-end of the Canvas LMS platform, focusing on improving the user interface and functionality of features. They addressed date and time picker issues, including time zone handling, ensuring proper display and saving of dates in different locales. Their work involved JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and potentially other front-end technologies, with code changes related to JavaScript, HTML and CSS. They also implemented improvements in the RCE (Rich Content Editor) area and created a basic set of tools.
lmsinstructurecanvas-lmsgerrit-mirror
brentropy/chan
Nov 2013 - Nov 2016
A go style channel implementation for JavaScript that works well with co
Contributions:85 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years
gojavascript
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