Justin Burkett
Verizon Sales Specialist at Best Buy
Pennsylvania, United States
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Justin Burkett is a versatile technologist and sales specialist with 11 years of experience blending customer-facing roles at Best Buy and Target with hands-on software and tooling contributions in the Emacs ecosystem. He runs a creative studio, Clarity Illustrations, while shipping usability and theming improvements across widely used open-source projects like swiper, Spacemacs, and Julia's editor support, demonstrating both front-end polish and backend code quality. Comfortable on Windows and macOS, proficient in Python, Adobe Suite, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Microsoft/Google productivity stacks, he brings a designer’s eye to developer tooling. Known for leadership in team-based creative exercises, he excels in social, collaborative environments and often bridges user experience and technical details to improve workflows. An active maintainer of emacs-which-key and contributor to high-profile repos, he quietly influences developer ergonomics that many Emacs users rely on.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects, Junior, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects, Junior at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (38)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
justbur/emacs-which-key
Jul 2015 - Aug 2022
Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 733 commits, 76 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Justin was the primary contributor to the `emacs-which-key` repository, an Emacs package for displaying keybindings. Their work primarily focused on implementing new features, refactoring the underlying code, and improving the user interface. The commits show a consistent focus on improving code quality through code restructuring, documentation, and applying faces to format key bindings. They also added support for additional UI options and added features such as paging of the displayed information.
elispdisplaysspacemacsemacs-packageemacs
abo-abo/swiper
Dec 2015 - Sep 2019
Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 48 PRs, 81 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the Emacs-based completion and search frontend "swiper" by adding new features and improving existing functionality within the "counsel" component. They introduced features like `counsel-mode`, enhancements to `counsel-ag`, and commands such as `counsel-file-jump`, as well as incorporating more portable directory path handling. They also implemented several usability improvements within swiper, including adding an occur function to `ivy-switch-buffer` and enabling sorting.
elispcounselivygenericemacs
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