Summary
Don Burgess is a Principal Product Developer with a decade of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and leading cross-functional engineering efforts. He combines deep JVM and Node.js expertise with full-stack fluency—Java, C#, Kotlin, TypeScript—and practical experience across databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and RethinkDB. Don has a strong track record in AWS architecture, Dockerized multi-region deployments, and real-time systems using message brokers, and he’s led platform overhauls and CI/CD automation for enterprise clients. A mentor and technical leader, he pairs software craftsmanship with solutions-architect skills gained while driving migrations and performance work at NextEra and Maestro. He also brings entrepreneurial curiosity—founding PatternChaser.com to apply custom algorithms to market scanning—and is actively expanding into machine learning with TensorFlow projects.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer