Tom Burton
Managing Engineer at Smalgyax-Files.org
Mooresville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolTom Burton is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of hands-on experience and a proven track record of turning small teams into high-performance, self-managed agile units. As Managing Engineer at Allstate, he drives roadmap, architecture, and delivery for analytics and experimentation tooling while mentoring teams and aligning work with business priorities. He blends full-stack Java development, DevOps automation, and systems administration—having built custom Maven plugins, integrated Docker with Jenkins, and migrated multiple Java apps to Maven—to simplify and harden delivery pipelines. Tom founded a nonprofit language-learning platform (Smalgyax-Files.org) and an internal Native American employee resource group, showing both product-building grit and community leadership. Comfortable as a jack-of-all-trades, he is “ambitiously lazy,” favoring automation to boost consistency and reliability across development and operations. His open-source contributions to Apache Wicket components underscore a pragmatic attention to backend UX and dynamic data handling that often goes unnoticed in leadership roles.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PC/Network Support Technician Certificate PC Support/Networking, PC/Network Support Technician Certificate PC Support/Networking at Alaska Vocational Technical CenterAssociates of Applied Science in Information Technology Specialist Information Technology Computer Science Networking., Associates of Applied Science in Information Technology Specialist Information Technology Computer Science Networking. at University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Github Skills (21)
java10
javas10
mocking10
wicketstuff10
wicket10
annotations9
testing9
assertion9
integrations9
inheritance9
junit9
mockito9
generics9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wicketstuff/core
Dec 2011 - May 2014
Wicketstuff-core projects are bundled user contributions for use with Apache Wicket (https://wicket.apache.org/). They are released in step with Wicket releases to make them easy to use.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tom focused on enhancing the InMethod Grid component, contributing to back-end functionalities for adding and deleting rows, and implementing new column types. They introduced features like IAppendableDataSource and related classes for dynamic data manipulation. The user also addressed issues with link display within the grid and made improvements to date and dropdown components. Furthermore, code modifications were focused on ensuring proper grid behavior, especially regarding the deletion of the last row.
apache-wicketwicketstuffapachereleasedintegrations
raystorm/SymfonyResume
Aug 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 1 year 2 months
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