Jen Burns
Engineering Manager at Apple
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJen Burns is an engineering manager with 9 years of leadership experience and over two decades in software and manufacturing, currently leading engineering efforts at Apple from Fremont, CA. She specializes in building global, cross-functional teams and operationalizing devops, release engineering, and test automation to dramatically accelerate delivery—achieving release-time reductions north of 80% and major drops in field failures. Comfortable diving into code and process, she reviews thousands of lines weekly and guides technology choices across embedded C, C#, Python, and CI tooling like Jenkins and Git. Her background in manufacturing gives her a rare systems-level view that connects product design, testability, and production reliability—helping reduce first-year failure rates by over 60%. A natural troubleshooter and optimist, she also applies a storyteller’s eye to photography, capturing fleeting moments at kids’ sports events.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Applied Math, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Applied Math at University of Rochester
English, Spanish, American Sign Language
Github Skills (38)
spec10
mitre-attack10
inspec10
testing10
cybersecurity10
audit10
security10
tdd10
cyber-threat-intelligence10
compliance10
auditing10
ctf9
devops9
threat-intelligence9
rhel9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jburns12/unfetter-store
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 4 months
apidata-interfacebackenddatabaserest
jburns12/cti_test
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:83 commits, 12 PRs, 128 pushes in 5 months
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