Payton Burdette
Senior Frontend Engineer, CI at GitLab Inc.
Anderson, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPayton Burdette is a Senior Frontend Engineer with nine years of professional experience and a decade-long passion for building reliable web software, currently focused on CI features at GitLab. He maintains major open-source projects like gitlab and gitlab-ui and has delivered real-time CI statuses, merge train visualizations, and performance-focused lazy-loading and refactors from legacy code to Vue and GraphQL. As a founder of EssayGrader.ai, he bootstrapped and sold an AI-driven grading product that cut educators’ grading time by 95%, demonstrating both product instincts and solo-engineering grit. Previously he led a small engineering team building internal tools and integrations with ERP and payment systems, emphasizing testable modern JavaScript and measurable performance gains. Based in Anderson, SC, he blends deep frontend craft with practical backend integrations and a track record of shipping features that scale in large, distributed products.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Applied Science, Computer Science, Associate in Applied Science, Computer Science at Tri-County Technical College
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Github Skills (119)
tooling10
python10
javascript10
palette10
codesandbox10
html10
compiler10
gatsby10
kubernetes10
static-site-generator10
shadow10
vue10
fastest10
preact10
bootstrap10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pburdette/vue-step-progression
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
beardedpayton/labelcious
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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