Summary
Chrispian Burks is a Technical Director and seasoned backend engineer with over 10 years of hands-on experience building and operating scalable web systems, APIs, and eCommerce integrations. He blends founder-level ownership—having started and later returned to guide WritingForums.com—with enterprise software craftsmanship at companies like ADTRAN and Franklin Creative Solutions. Skilled across PHP, JavaScript, Bash, Perl and AWS, he focuses on backend architecture, DevOps/CI-CD, and pragmatic automation that reduces operational friction (for example, custom product syncs and mass-import tooling for thousands of SKUs). Chrispian pairs technical leadership and mentoring with day-to-day coding, having led teams, defined engineering standards, and created production APIs and deployment tooling. Based in Huntsville, AL, he also applies his maker mentality to small-batch product businesses, reflecting a mix of scalable systems thinking and hands-on craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer