John Burns
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Burns is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient, real-time data platforms and orchestration systems. He has driven large-scale migrations and streaming infrastructure—owning Kafka, Flink, and Temporal platforms at Nordstrom and executing a zero-downtime migration of 10,000+ Kafka topics. As a founder-engineer he built PCI-compliant payment and delivery platforms and production data pipelines, demonstrating both product instincts and systems rigor. Now at Datadog and co-founding ChatGPTree, he blends hands-on engineering with platform thinking to optimize observability and AI readiness across organizations. Based in Seattle, he mentors engineers and frequently advocates AI design reviews, pairing operational excellence with pragmatic experimentation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Puget Sound
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Github Skills (36)
docker10
kubernetes-cluster10
dotnet10
dotnet-core10
fsharp10
csharp10
k8s10
kubernetes9
task-queue8
logic8
visual-studio8
cadence8
java8
task-management8
business-logic8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
johncburns1/Golang-.NET-SharedC
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
johncburns1/DNAComputationSim
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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