Edward Burns
Staff Software Developer at Confluent
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolEdward Burns is a Staff Software Developer with 11 years of experience building backend and networking systems, currently advancing Confluent's platform from Denver. He progressed internally from Senior Software Engineer to staff-level leadership at Confluent after prior backend work at Amazon and AWS, bringing strong distributed-systems and service-design expertise. His background spans high-performance Java desktop and simulation work, large-scale backend services in Node.js/Java, and optimizations like Postgres partial indexing and threaded refactors that hint at a pragmatic, performance-minded approach. Comfortable across languages (Java, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript), he pairs systems-level thinking with product-focused delivery and a habit of introducing practical engineering improvements. A coffee-driven engineer who enjoys untangling complex infrastructure problems, he also has experience migrating teams to modern JS tooling and advocating better engineering practices through talks and refactors.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Engineering Engineering, Industrial Engineering Engineering at New Mexico State UniversityBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at NMSU
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Github Skills (35)
proxy9
accelerator9
high-performance9
swing8
golang8
kubernetes7
javascript7
cloud-native7
eclipse6
rxjava6
arraylist6
chai6
android6
angular-ui-router6
event-handling6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eddieburns55/RxSwing
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches, 1 comment in 3 months
rxjavaandroidswing
ReactiveX/RxSwing
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 17 PRs in 10 months
rxjavaandroidswing
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