Sawyer Burnett
Principal Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
North Bend, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSawyer Burnett is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems across transportation, automotive, healthcare, and e-commerce. Currently driving core infrastructure for Walmart's conversational AI platform, he has led cross-team architecture efforts that cut NLU latency fourfold and shipped platform-wide runtimes and APIs used in hundreds of retail locations. He combines hands-on development (React, Python, Node, AWS, Terraform) with platform-level thinking around Security, DevOps, and CI/CD, consistently adding automated quality gates and reproducible releases. As an engineering leader he has a track record of refactors and migrations—swapping GraphQL implementations and unifying staging/production artifacts—to reduce operational risk. Sawyer pairs technical delivery with advocacy: running meetups, internal education sessions, and accessibility and localization initiatives that earned independent certification. He holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, bringing product-minded judgment to complex engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (115)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Burnett2k/workout-manager
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 10 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Burnett2k/Sonos-Scheduler
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 123 pushes, 6 branches in 10 months
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