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.
12 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 (125)
testing10
declarative10
javascript10
validation10
input-field10
typescript10
validators10
user-interface10
facebook10
frontend10
react10
twitter9
data-driven9
react-component9
render9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
HurricaneJames/dex
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:6 releases, 46 commits, 23 pushes in 3 months
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
validationjavascriptproptypevalidatorsvalidator
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