John Burnham
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer at Argument
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Burnham is a serial founder and CEO with 13 years of experience building and steering early-stage software ventures from product inception to market. Based in Boston, he has repeatedly combined hands-on engineering with executive leadership at companies including Argument, Sunshine Cybernetics, and Tlon, and served as a Thiel Fellow and R&D fellow at Wolfram Research. Technically grounded in backend systems, he contributes to notable open-source infrastructure like the Urbit project, where he’s worked on core networking/breach protocol code. That blend of deep systems work and repeated company-building suggests a leader who still dives into code to shape product direction and technical strategy.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The Island SchoolDartmouth CollegeHigh School, High School at Northfield Mount Hermon School
English
Github Skills (3)
urbit10
argo10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
urbit/urbit
Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
An operating function
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:164 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the Urbit project by modifying the `ames.hoon` file, specifically focused on updating the list of known "carrier" users and their corresponding Urbit handles, and adjusting code relating to the breach protocol. The edits include adding new users and updating code and comments related to various Ames functionalities and API usage. Additionally, the user made adjustments to related code and documentation files.
nockrustoperating-systemp2phoon
lurk-lab/introit
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
The Yatima Standard Library
Contributions:2 reviews, 35 commits, 8 PRs in 8 months
standard-library
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