Mitch Burton
Senior Software Engineer at Canonical
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMitch Burton is a Senior Software Engineer in Vancouver with nine years of experience building full-stack systems, reliability tooling, and data analysis pipelines. He brings strong hands-on expertise in Python, Django, Node, React, AWS, and C, and has moved between roles at Canonical and AWS where he delivered production services at scale. His background in biochemistry combined with a later computer science degree gives him a unique perspective on data-driven problem solving and systems thinking. Comfortable across development, SRE, and analytics, Mitch blends pragmatic engineering with an eye for observability and operational robustness. Despite a concise public GitHub presence, his track record shows steady progression into senior platform and cloud-focused engineering roles.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (70)
ubuntu10
linux9
equality9
python9
landscape9
scripting9
jupyter9
agent9
shell8
juju8
pure-python8
testing7
operator7
aws-cdk7
timer7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/snap-http
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 26 reviews, 12 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Perfect5th/perfect5th.github.io
Jul 2016 - Aug 2024
Contributions:20 PRs, 183 pushes, 21 branches in 8 years 3 months
reactnextjs
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