Burr Sutter
Developer Advocate
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarBurr Sutter is a Developer Advocate with 15 years of experience helping teams adopt cloud-native and microservice architectures from Raleigh, NC. He blends hands-on backend development across Java, Go, Node.js, Python and Quarkus with community-building and technical evangelism. His open-source work includes cross-framework examples and deployment scripts (notably the 9stepsawesome repo) that make complex patterns—Kubernetes deployment, cross-namespace service discovery, and multi-framework “hello” endpoints—easy to reproduce. He’s also enhanced Istio tutorials with tracing, traffic shifting and User-Agent routing, bringing practical observability and resilience patterns to learners. Known for translating deep technical concepts into approachable demos and tutorials, Burr bridges product, platform, and developer communities to accelerate adoption. An active experimenter, he pairs load-testing and fault-injection techniques with clear docs to help teams move from theory to reliable production.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
api-rest10
kubernetes10
tracer10
api-design10
restful-api10
microservices-application10
java10
javas10
kubernetes-pods10
spring-boot10
istio10
rest-api10
microservices10
trace10
nodejs9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
burrsutter/9stepsawesome
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
The exercises/samples repo for bit.ly/9stepsawesome presentation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:171 commits, 20 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Burr primarily focused on creating and modifying examples across various technologies, including Vert.x, Go, MicroProfile, Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, and Quarkus, demonstrating a strong understanding of diverse backend frameworks. They implemented core features, including the "hello" endpoint across these frameworks, along with configuration and system resource endpoints for Spring Boot. Furthermore, the user set up basic deployment scripts using Kubernetes and introduced cross-namespace service discovery.
presentationbit
redhat-scholars/istio-tutorial
Nov 2017 - Jul 2020
Istio Tutorial for https://dn.dev/master
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:155 commits, 5 PRs, 145 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Burr primarily focused on enhancing the Istio tutorial application, adding tracing capabilities to the microservices, and refactoring them to support features like User-Agent based routing and circuit breakers. They modified Java code in customer, preferences, and recommendations services. The user experimented with Gatling load tests and traffic shifting strategies.
envoydevtracingmasteropenshift
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