Todd Burry
Chief Executive Officer at Travel Insurance Specialists
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTodd Burry is a seasoned technology executive and founder with over 16 years of hands-on engineering experience and more than 25 years in the technology industry, best known for co-founding Vanilla Forums and scaling it to profitability and acquisition while serving as lead engineer and chief product officer. He blends product leadership with deep backend and infrastructure expertise—contributing significant open-source improvements to Vanilla’s core and add-ons, including authentication, plugin compatibility, and API enhancements. Todd excels at directing engineering teams to deliver B2B SaaS solutions for SMBs and enterprises, and he now applies that operational and strategic experience as CEO at Travel Insurance Specialists. Based in Montreal and trained in computer science at the University of Toronto, he brings an operator-founder mindset with a knack for turning community-driven open-source work into commercial products.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at University of Toronto - University College
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Github Skills (13)
php10
back-end-development10
mysql10
apidoc9
database-design9
api9
user-authentication8
authentication8
bbcode8
unit-testing8
database7
databases7
database-api7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vanilla/addons
Aug 2010 - Feb 2022
Official add-ons and tools for Vanilla Forums.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 739 commits, 95 PRs in 11 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily worked on the back-end of the Vanilla Forums addon system. Their contributions focused on improving the existing functionality of a selection of core plugins, including OpenID, Pockets, and the Voting plugin. The changes show a focus on bug fixes, especially related to URL rewriting, and ensuring compatibility with various site configurations. They also added new features to various plugins such as adding new options and cleaning up.
discourseadd-onsvanilla-forumsaddonsforum
vanilla/vanilla
Jan 2010 - Jul 2020
Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Infrastructure
Back-end Developer & InfrastructureContributions:7859 commits, 1306 PRs, 1743 pushes in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Todd focused on improving the backend functionality of the discussion forum by addressing issues with user authentication, category management, and database-level operations. They also added support for additional API endpoints and refactored core services. Furthermore, their contributions included improvements to internal database functionalities, indicating work related to infrastructure and maintenance of the application's core components. These improvements were tested by adding new unit tests as well.
vanilla-forumssimple-discussionphpforumdiscussion-board
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