William Burns
Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWilliam Burns is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building highly scalable game platforms and infrastructure for millions of users. He helped design systems that supported hundreds of thousands of concurrent players and drove growth through UX improvements and cross-server features that boosted visits dramatically at Hypixel and Mineplex. Now at Palantir, he combines game-focused backend and network scaling expertise with product-minded engineering to solve large, real-world data and deployment challenges. London-based and classically trained in Computer Science and Economics at St Andrews, he brings an unusual mix of player-centric product instincts and robust infrastructure craftsmanship cultivated since his teens.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Economics at University of St AndrewsCharterhouse School
English, French
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Github Skills (23)
python9
spigot8
plugin8
discounts8
minecraft8
bukkit7
jetty6
api6
sparkjava6
multithreading6
java6
embedded-jetty6
data-explorer4
chat3
azure3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
williamburns/punisher
May 2017 - Mar 2020
A basic punishment system for MC/Bukkit plugin.
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
minecraftbukkit-pluginbukkitpluginpunishment
williamburns/mylifeinphotos
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Personal photo website.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
reactphoto
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