Chris Burgess
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Burgess is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends systems-level curiosity with a passion for elegant, creative solutions—he’s particularly enthusiastic about Rust and data compression. Currently at AWS, he brings research-informed rigor from prior work in video compression and educational tooling at UNC Chapel Hill and hands-on product experience from roles at Vanguard and Penn State Health. He has built embedded medical devices, backend microservices in AWS, and frontend visualizations, showing a rare comfort across hardware, cloud, and full-stack code. An active open-source contributor, he’s added gameplay overlays, timers, and reliability fixes to the OpenOSRS ecosystem, demonstrating attention to user-facing polish and low-level detail. Based in Charlotte, NC, he’s equally likely to optimize an encoder pipeline as he is to debug a tricky UI bug—or play a thoughtful game of chess while doing both.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (6)
javas10
overlay10
game-development10
overlays10
java10
git9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xKylee/plugins-source
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
External OpenOSRS plugins (source code)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 27 PRs, 3 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to multiple plugins for the OpenOSRS client, focusing on feature enhancements and bug fixes. They implemented a prayer overlay with tick counters and support for additional prayers. The user also worked on timers for special attacks, added indicators for the Inferno minigame, and addressed issues related to menu entry priority. Further contributions included a fix for an issue sending chat messages and support for the Nex minigame.
openosrsauto-updatezonesrundeckperl
cgbur/arcode-rs
Apr 2019 - Jun 2022
An arithmetic coder for Rust.
Contributions:73 commits, 4 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 years 2 months
arithmeticdecodinglossless-compression-algorithmlosslessentropy-coding
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