John Bunting
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Polymarket
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Bunting is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure, currently driving SRE at Chicago Trading Company after leadership roles at BeReal and Twitter. He specializes in AWS architecture, organization-level deployments, and mentoring engineering teams to improve reliability and operational maturity. His background includes hands-on backend development and open-source contributions—notably work on pytumblr and improving Plaid's Ruby bindings—reflecting strong API design, testing, and error-handling skills. Comfortable bridging developer and operations concerns, he brings startup-founder grit from OurShelf plus enterprise-grade SRE practice, making him adept at scaling services while keeping systems observable and resilient.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Software Engineering at Drexel University
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Github Skills (14)
testing10
error-handling10
api10
python10
apidoc10
oauth10
ruby10
api-design9
restful-api9
unit-test9
rest-api9
unit-testing9
api-rest9
mysql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tumblr/pytumblr
Feb 2013 - Jun 2015
A Python Tumblr API v2 Client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on building the back-end client for the Tumblr API in Python. Their work involved initial setup and implementation of core methods for interacting with the API, including authentication and request generation. The commits show the user's work on implementing various API calls (read paths and write paths), along with adding testing infrastructure for functionality, validating the parameters, and returning better responses.
python
plaid/plaid-ruby
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Ruby bindings for Plaid
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on enhancing the error handling and testing aspects of the Plaid Ruby bindings. Their contributions included adding specific exception classes with error codes and messages to provide better introspection for users. Additionally, they implemented comprehensive unit tests to cover various scenarios, including error conditions and different authentication states. These changes aimed to improve the robustness and clarity of the library.
plaidruby
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