John Burns
Sr. Software Engineer at Netflix
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Burns is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable enterprise and eCommerce platforms, now focusing on the JVM ecosystem as part of Netflix’s Platform Engineering team. He specializes in developer experience—creating shared tooling that boosts productivity and makes life easier for engineering teams—and has advanced through roles at Grubhub and Accuity into technical leadership positions. Based in Chicago, he is an active tech community organizer and conference speaker, co-organizing Chicago Kotlin and CJUG, which reflects his commitment to knowledge sharing beyond his day job. Known for pragmatic system design and platform-level thinking, he blends hands-on coding with an eye for developer ergonomics and operational scalability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Northern Illinois University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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jenkins-plugin10
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gradle-plugin10
slf4j10
integration-testing10
github-api10
coroutines10
groovy10
gradle-kotlin-dsl10
throwaway10
typeahead10
junit-test10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wakingrufus/elo-api
Nov 2016 - Nov 2017
An api for managing elo ratings for a gaming league
Contributions:10 releases, 22 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year
apigamingleaguenodejsratings
wakingrufus/website
May 2018 - Jan 2023
My personal website
Contributions:5 releases, 136 commits, 52 PRs in 4 years 9 months
reactstatic-sitekotlin-dslkotlinnextjs
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