John Burwell
Specialist Leader at The Apache Software Foundation
Waterford, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Burwell is a hands-on specialist leader with over two decades of experience designing and delivering high-performance distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, currently driving technical strategy and delivery at Deloitte. He blends deep Java expertise—non-blocking, low-latency network services and large-scale MPP processing—with pragmatic domain-driven design and lean/agile practices to keep architecture aligned with stakeholder needs. A seasoned open source contributor and Apache CloudStack PMC member, he has shaped release processes and long-term support policies while also shipping practical DevOps tooling such as a UniFi Controller installer for pfSense. John is experienced leading globally distributed teams, establishing CI/CD and automation at scale, and turning complex requirements into maintainable SaaS platforms. Based in Waterford, VA, he pairs systems-level thinking with a craftsperson’s attention to code quality and operational robustness.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, History, Computer Science, History at Millsaps CollegeDiploma, Diploma at Metairie Park Country Day SchoolBA, Computer Science, History, BA, Computer Science, History at Transylvania University
Github Skills (10)
pfsense10
sh10
script10
shell10
scripting10
freebsd10
automation9
automations9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
unofficial-unifi/unifi-pfsense
Oct 2013 - Jul 2018
A script that installs the UniFi Controller software on pfSense and other FreeBSD systems
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:120 commits, 67 PRs, 59 pushes in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on creating a script to install and manage the UniFi Controller software on pfSense, a FreeBSD-based system. Their contributions included writing the initial installation script, adding features such as fstab entries, package installations, and creating an rc.d script for service management. They also refactored the script, added backup/restore functionality, and updated the UniFi software download URL.
rc-scriptcontrollervmspfsensefreebsd
gozoinks/gozoinks.github.io
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:20 pushes in 11 months
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