Erik Burton
Site Reliability Engineer at Stealth Startup
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Burton is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Vancouver with a decade of experience building robust backend and DevOps systems across startups and large-scale environments. He transitioned from software development roles at Amazon and earlier engineering positions into SRE work, bringing deep hands-on experience in test infrastructure, monitoring, and CI/CD. As a contributor to the prominent Chainlink open-source project, he integrated Grafana/Loki and improved flaky-test tooling and GitHub Actions reporting, underscoring his focus on observable, reliable pipelines. His academic background in computer and internet security with a mathematics minor informs a security-conscious approach to system design and operations. Comfortable in both startup stealth-mode and enterprise settings, he blends pragmatic engineering with a track record of shipping dependable, scalable tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S) Computer Science (CO-OP & Honours): Computer & Internet Security with Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S) Computer Science (CO-OP & Honours): Computer & Internet Security with Minor in Mathematics at Carleton University
English, French
Github Skills (11)
go10
testing10
devops9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
postgresql7
blockchain5
oracles5
chainlink5
oracle5
solidity4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
smartcontractkit/chainlink
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
node of the decentralized oracle network, bridging on and off-chain computation
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:211 reviews, 269 PRs, 335 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Erik primarily contributed to the Chainlink project by implementing changes related to testing infrastructure, including the integration of Grafana and tools for managing flakey tests. They modified Go code related to test reporting and test runner commands, particularly for integrating with Loki and GitHub Actions. Additionally, the user updated dependencies, including bumping the PostgreSQL client version and upgrading the Solana build contracts for Node.js 20.
golangcomputationethereumblockchaindecentralized
smartcontractkit-test/chainlink-test
Feb 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 10 PRs, 86 pushes in 9 months
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