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.
10 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 (54)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Perfect5th/utm-jazz
Jan 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:28 PRs, 63 pushes, 26 branches in 5 years 8 months
badwindowssimturingturing-machine
Perfect5th/dev-lxc
Feb 2024 - Feb 2026
A helper CLI for launching dev Ubuntu containers
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 2 years
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