John Burk
Interaction Developer, Computation Layer Specialist
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJohn Burk is an interaction developer and computation layer specialist with 13 years of experience blending physics, pedagogy, and product development to create immersive EdTech experiences. He has driven high-impact features—like a widely adopted drag-and-drop question system—and shipped hundreds of front-end and back-end improvements that unlocked team velocity and scaled usage to over a million learners. A former physics teacher with MS in Applied Physics, he pairs user-centered design and classroom empathy with hands-on engineering in Vue, Node, and analytics pipelines to turn learning into active exploration. At Pivot Interactives and Discovery Education he moved product decisions from intuition to data by implementing event tracking and Snowflake analytics, revealing unexpected high-value usage patterns. Now based in Atlanta, he focuses on computation layers and interaction design that make complex concepts tangible and invite curiosity.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Duke UniversityJohns Hopkins University
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Github Skills (17)
firebase6
react6
php6
meteor6
laravel6
forms6
python6
google-apps-script6
applescript6
pyret5
prettier-eslint4
eslint-config3
eslint2
typescript2
programming-language2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
occam98/hello-world
Apr 2016 - May 2021
hello world github
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
hello-world-github
occam98/physicscoach2
Jan 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:192 commits, 15 PRs, 172 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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