Jared Burns
Director, Service Platform
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJared Burns is a seasoned platform engineering leader with over 25 years in software engineering and more than a decade directing large, distributed teams to deliver cloud-native platforms. As Platform Engineering Director at Nike he built and scaled an internal developer platform on Kubernetes that now runs hundreds of production apps, cut cloud spend by 50%, and returned significant engineering capacity to product teams. He combines hands-on principal engineering chops—having architected enterprise-scale digital asset and analytics platforms—with strategic leadership across the US, Poland, and India, mentoring engineers into senior technical and management roles. Jared is focused on developer experience and reliability, and has led responsible, practical introductions of AI into platform workflows, including spec-driven development and internal AI governance. Based in Portland, he blends startup agility (founding engineer and head of engineering experience) with enterprise-grade delivery across observability, service mesh, and multi-cloud patterns.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering at Bucknell University
bad japanese, broken french, practically no chinese
Stackoverflow
970reputation
40kreached
29answers
11questions
Github Skills (200)
dashboard10
reverse-proxy10
python10
identity10
testing10
authentication10
proxy10
terraform10
security10
oauth2-proxy10
microservices10
sso-authentication10
terraform-module10
monitoring10
charts10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Ghazgkull/kubernetes
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:8 pushes in 10 days
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
Ghazgkull/charts
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Curated applications for Kubernetes
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 day
k8skuberneteskubernetes-dashboard
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