Jason Burks
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Capital One
Maine, United States
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Top SchoolJason Burks is a Senior Director of Software Engineering with 11+ years driving cloud-native transformation and enterprise container platforms at Capital One and prior roles at GE Appliances. He blends deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Go, Ruby, and Puppet with strategic leadership building containerized compute environments used across large organizations. Jason has a strong background in hybrid-cloud deployments, DNS and authentication integrations, and automating management of thousands of servers—skills honed by leading platforms and teams through major migrations. Known for turning prototyping into production-grade systems, he pairs pragmatic architecture with developer experience priorities. Based in Maine, he brings both systems-level craftsmanship and executive delivery ownership, often surfacing overlooked operational details like GSS-TSIG DNS integrations that materially reduce runbook complexity.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (27)
docker8
chroot8
kubernetes7
development-environment7
containerd7
tilt7
podman7
containerization6
rust5
kind5
puppet5
container5
dev-environment4
dashboard4
skaffold4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jburks725/hmacurl
Jul 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
jburks725/route53dynip
Jul 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
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