Steven Burnett
Software Engineer at Adobe
Lehi, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Burnett is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building front-end and full-stack features for education and enterprise products, currently contributing to Adobe from Lehi, Utah. He has deep hands-on expertise in React, Redux, Node.js and APIs, and has implemented large features like real-time Chat, notification infrastructure in Go, and an Alexa skill for Canvas LMS. As a former team lead at Instructure, he bridged product and engineering by shipping accessibility-minded UI improvements and front-end rewrites, and continues to contribute to the high-profile open Canvas LMS project. He pairs mobile app experience and tutoring in iOS development with proven backend work—DynamoDB, Node, Rails—making him comfortable across the stack. Known for shipping practical, user-focused features and fixing edge-case bugs, he brings a blend of product empathy and technical depth to collaborative engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahCottonwood High School
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
ui-design10
react10
ui-components10
accessibilityservice9
html9
acessibility9
accessibility9
css9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Nov 2014 - Jan 2020
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:573 commits, 30 pushes, 19 tags in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Canvas LMS. Their commits involved implementing new features related to discussion settings and modifying existing UI components. These changes included adding new buttons, modal windows, and integrating various UI elements from the Instructure UI library, such as buttons and text input fields, while also addressing accessibility concerns. Furthermore, the user worked on bug fixes related to email footer logos and added functionalities such as a section tooltip for discussions.
open-lmsinstructurecanvas-lmslmsinc
instructure/canvas-alexa-lambda
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Instructure's Alexa lambda interface for Canvas-LMS
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 4 months
canvasinstructurecanvas-lmslmsnodejs
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