Steve Burns
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Burns is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building and operating large-scale, mission-critical systems from the OS and device level to cloud-native services. He has led teams at Microsoft across Windows, Xbox, Intune, and e-commerce platforms, owning live-site reliability and architectures supporting billions of users and terabytes of persisted data. Skilled at turning ambiguous, high-risk projects into delivered products, he combines hands-on engineering, patents-driven technical depth, and a talent for developing high-morale teams through empowerment and continuous learning. He also specializes in bootstrapping cloud practices and customer-facing engineering engagements to accelerate adoption and impact. Based in Austin, he brings rare cross-discipline experience spanning low-level systems, developer tooling, and cloud services.
6 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Spanish, English
Github Skills (49)
agile10
docker9
product-management9
agile-development9
drift9
graphql8
windows8
rpi-pico7
desktop7
esp326
azure6
arduino6
cli6
debugging6
command-line-interface6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Steven-Burns/home-automation
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:212 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Steven-Burns/austin-inland-beach-site
Sep 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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