Gerard Burns
Software Engineer at Slice
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGerard Burns is a software engineer with 11 years' experience building production web applications and developer tooling from Belfast. He has advanced front-end expertise in React—shipping video-editing UIs and an embeddable widget at Rotor—and strong backend experience converting legacy systems into maintainable microservices and data pipelines across Python and AWS. At SquareFoot and Budibase he led efforts to standardize component libraries and modernize testing practices, improving developer workflows and release confidence. Now at Slice, he continues to bridge product and engineering needs, favoring pragmatic, compatibility-aware solutions (notably around bundling and external dependency isolation). His background in music hints at a creative approach to problem solving and an eye for user-focused interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Level 5 Diploma in Music, Level 5 Diploma in Music at Belfast Metropolitan College
Github Skills (29)
crud-application10
kubernetes10
docker10
sap-hana10
budibase10
postgresql10
admin10
python10
mysql10
low-code10
no-code10
open-source10
workflow-engine10
docker-compose10
internal-tools10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Ghrehh/vue-world-map
Jan 2018 - May 2022
A Vue JS component for displaying dynamic data on a world map.
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 4 months
vue-jsheatmapdynamic-datachartworld-map
Ghrehh/portfolio-site
Mar 2018 - Sep 2021
My portfolio website.
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
cssjavascriptreact
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