Nick Burrett
Greystones, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Burrett is a seasoned systems and reliability engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building and automating large-scale Linux services, and eleven years of focused professional experience across SRE, database engineering, and architecture. He has architected and automated MySQL management for fleets of tens of thousands of servers, led provisioning reliability improvements at Facebook, and implemented end-to-end billing and document-extraction pipelines in Rust and Python for healthcare integrations. Comfortable on modern cloud platforms and ancient hardware alike, Nick has patched kernels, back-ported drivers, implemented POSIX-like C libraries for non-POSIX OSes, and maintained legacy Red Hat systems during large migrations. He contributes to open-source tooling for athlete performance software (improving Strava/Garmin integrations in GoldenCheetah) and combines low-level systems knowledge with practical ML/OCR and microservice design to solve messy real-world automation problems. Based in Greystones, Ireland, he pairs deep technical breadth with an eye for simplifying manual operational workflows and mentoring teams to ship reliable, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Waseley Hills High SchoolBSc [Hons] Computer Science, BSc [Hons] Computer Science at The University of Salford
English
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ant10
cycle10
qt9
api8
apim8
system-design8
linux6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Performance Software for Cyclists, Runners, Triathletes and Coaches
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 13 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick contributed to the Strava upload functionality, setting the correct activity type based on the type of ride. They recognized more Garmin devices based on the FIT SDK, enhancing device compatibility. The user also fixed interactions with ANT power events related to Garmin Vector pedals, improving power readings and data accuracy. Furthermore, they addressed elevation fixups, API key management, and prevented file descriptor leaks in the application's elevation processing functionality.
sciencewindowscyclistspower-meterlinux
nickb937/sea-orm
Mar 2022 - Jul 2025
🐚 An async & dynamic ORM for Rust
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
mysqlrustsqldatabaseasync
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