Simon Burns
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Burns is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, data-intensive backend systems, currently shaping Snap Map’s geospatial and distributed infrastructure at Snap Inc. He previously engineered core streaming and change-data-capture systems at Lyft—tools that processed millions of records per minute and terabytes per day—bringing deep expertise in Kafka, Python, Go, and strong ordering/consistency guarantees. Simon combines hands-on systems design with team leadership to deliver reliable, scalable services on schedule, and his background in product and design roles gives him a pragmatic product-focused perspective. Trained in computer engineering (Georgia Tech) and software engineering (University of Washington), he quietly bridges low-level datastore guarantees with higher-level ranking and entity-resolution challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (60)
api8
photoshop8
debugging8
api-client8
sketch8
json7
react-component7
rest7
inline-styles7
cli7
rest-api7
cryptocurrency6
jq6
curl6
api-testing6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
simonburns77/FlyptoX
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:75 pushes in 16 days
lobster-and-death/stage-up
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:21 commits in 7 days
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