James Burnett
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Burnett is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack systems for both boutique art-house projects and high-traffic media platforms, and he currently drives features and reliability at Meta. He has deep expertise in Ruby/Rails, JavaScript/Node, Java, and C-family languages, and a strong practice of TDD/BDD, CI, and production monitoring including on-call runbooks. James has a history of modernizing legacy systems—migrating DB-driven designs to JSON APIs, adding platform-adaptive advertising, and integrating multi-vendor media pipelines—while championing coding standards and mentoring junior engineers. His background uniquely combines technical depth with policy-facing experience from a legislative role and advanced academic credentials (MS Computer Science and a JD), informing a pragmatic, compliance-aware approach to system design.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
JD, Law, JD, Law at University of Hawai'i at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of LawMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (71)
javascript10
input-field10
immutablejs10
facebook10
frontend10
react10
react-component9
testing9
declarative9
user-interface9
react-applications9
typescript9
layout-engine9
side-bar8
docker-desktop8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
HurricaneJames/react-immutable-proptypes
Mar 2015 - Mar 2020
PropType validators that work with Immutable.js.
Contributions:2 releases, 94 commits, 23 PRs in 5 years
immutablejs
HurricaneJames/lazy-input
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
A lazy React.js input field that only updates when it is told to re-render (fixes issues with Flux backed field data)
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 year 2 months
input-fieldreact
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