Summary
Sue Burt is a seasoned full-stack developer with over 15 years of experience delivering student-facing and enterprise web applications across the education sector, now applying her craft at The Guardian. She combines deep hands-on skills in Java and ASP.NET with strong requirements gathering, technical documentation, testing and deployment experience, and has acted as a subject-matter expert for module registration, enrolment and payments systems. Sue has led migrations and integrations—porting core functionality between platforms and building scanner and payment-linked services that reduced staff workload and improved reporting for regulatory metrics. Comfortable mentoring and providing technical leadership, she also volunteers in public-speaking and mentorship roles, boosting local club membership via targeted PR and onboarding initiatives. Based in the Greater Northampton Area, Sue pairs a pragmatic, user-focused engineering approach with a continuous-improvement mindset and an unusual background in 3D design that informs her attention to usable interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Tech Returners
MSc, Information Systems, Distinction, MSc, Information Systems, Distinction at University of Portsmouth
BA(Hons), 3 Dimensional Design, 2:2, BA(Hons), 3 Dimensional Design, 2:2 at Buckinghamshire New University
English