Don Burks
Software Development Manager at Amazon
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolDon Burks is a seasoned software development manager with over two decades of web development experience and a recent focus on leading engineering teams at Amazon and in the VFX tools space. He has repeatedly stepped into Director/Manager roles to drive full lifecycle delivery—from architecture and planning to testing and deployment—while mentoring engineers and speaking/teaching web development topics. Don blends hands-on engineering instincts with product-minded leadership, having led teams across startups, agencies, and large enterprises in Vancouver. An unexpected thread through his career is a sustained dedication to teaching and curriculum design, from instructor roles to guest lecturing, which he leverages to build high-performing teams.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BMA Music Performance, BMA Music Performance at Columbus State University
Spanish
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Github Skills (56)
rails-app10
grpc-web8
minifier8
package8
rpg8
expressjs7
nodejs7
javascript7
twitter7
webpack7
css7
windows7
rails7
linux7
typescript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lighthouse-labs/codecreate
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 months
gamehour-of-code
donburks/password-entropy
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
NPM Module for testing password entropy
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
entropytestingnpm-modulepasswordnodejs
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