Richard Burnison
Database Administrator
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Burnison is a seasoned Database Administrator and software engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling low-latency, highly concurrent systems across companies like Chess.com, Clio, PagerDuty, and Kijiji. He specializes in digging into internals—from the JVM and MySQL/InnoDB to Linux—to refactor and optimize systems that others consider limiting or impossible to scale. A pragmatic leader and mentor who co-owns a technology consultancy, he blends hands-on reliability engineering with a taste for elegant, maintainable architectures. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, Richard thrives on solving scale-related challenges and making performance wins repeatable across teams.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming & Systems Analysis, Computer Programming & Systems Analysis at Humber College
Github Skills (94)
parser10
python10
high-availability10
failover10
mysql-replication10
automation10
google-tasks10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
optimizer10
bidirectional10
golang10
home-automation10
cdc10
mysql10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
burnison/clip
Sep 2012 - Apr 2016
Contributions:106 commits, 5 pushes in 3 years 7 months
PagerDuty/orchestrator
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
MySQL replication topology management and HA
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
etcdmysql-replicationmysqlshardingtopology
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