Jack Price-Burns
Senior Backend Engineer at Lopay
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJack Price-Burns is a Senior Backend Engineer based in London with a decade of experience building and optimizing web platforms across startup and enterprise environments. He has a strong AWS focus and a track record of improving performance and UX as a full-stack contributor—most recently enhancing a Laravel/Livewire-based private tracker by fixing home-page performance bottlenecks, refining bookmarking and freeleech token workflows, and cleaning both front- and back-end inconsistencies. Jack moves fluidly between backend services, DevOps responsibilities and front-end polish, having held roles from DevOps/Backend at muzmatch to senior engineering positions at Jelly and Photobox Group. He’s comfortable shipping pragmatic fixes in legacy codebases as well as evolving product features in active teams. Outside work he balances cloud architecture with an unexpected creative side as a DJ, reflecting a knack for both technical precision and human-centered product thinking.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
GCSEs Computing Maths ICT English Physics Chemistry Biology Environmental Science Catering, GCSEs Computing Maths ICT English Physics Chemistry Biology Environmental Science Catering at Aylsham High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form
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Github Skills (25)
laravel-mix10
laravel10
livewire10
php10
alpinejs10
torrent9
bittorrent8
javascript8
caching7
databases7
database7
html6
trackpoint6
activity-tracker6
vbnet6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HDInnovations/UNIT3D
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Private Torrent Tracker Built With Laravel, Livewire and AlpineJS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Jack primarily focused on improving the user interface and optimizing the existing codebase. They fixed performance issues on the home page, specifically related to the display of torrent information. Additionally, they updated the application's structure by implementing changes to enhance bookmarking functionality and incorporating freeleech tokens. Furthermore, they made various fixes to the front-end and back-end codebase, enhancing the overall user experience and correcting inconsistencies.
next-generationlivewiretrackertorrent-trackercommunity-edition
IINU/jelly-ui
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
Open source UI module for hospitality and other applications
Contributions:112 releases, 2 PRs, 134 pushes in 9 months
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