Zachary Burns
Board Member at Myhre Syndrome Foundation
Dublin, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Burns is a systems-minded software engineer and board member with 14 years of experience turning complex technical problems into simple, reliable solutions. He has led architecture and research at Edge & Node and built high-performance, real-time geospatial systems at Live Earth that stream hundreds of thousands of entities per second using Rust, C#, and JavaScript. A strong backend and security practitioner, he has contributed to The Graph's core projects—hardening indexer services, tightening authorization, and optimizing graph-node block processing and query execution. Zachary blends low-level systems programming, data-oriented design, and lock-free concurrency with practical product shipping from indie games to enterprise imagery platforms. He holds patents pending in data serialization and geospatial compression, and brings a rare combination of performance optimization expertise and security-first engineering to distributed, data-intensive systems. Now based in Dublin, CA, he also serves on the Myhre Syndrome Foundation board, applying technical leadership to mission-driven work.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Computer Animation, Associates Computer Animation at Full Sail
python, c#, English, Spanish, Chinese, go
Github Skills (21)
expressjs10
back-end-development10
payment-service10
payment-gateway10
payment-methods10
security10
payment-processing10
payment10
blockchain10
rust10
wpgraphql9
ipfs9
wordpress-graphql9
ethereum9
nodejs9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
graphprotocol/graph-node
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Graph Node indexes data from blockchains such as Ethereum and serves it over GraphQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 49 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Zachary primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure of the graph-node project. Their work involved debugging and refactoring code, particularly within the IPFS link resolver and the JSON-RPC server. They also implemented stable hash implementations for various data structures and optimized block processing and query execution. These changes improved the performance and reliability of the node's data indexing and querying capabilities.
node-graphipfsgraphql-apiindexesethereum
graphprotocol/indexer
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Graph Protocol indexer components and infrastructure
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:35 reviews, 35 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Zachary focused on improving the security and reliability of the indexer-service. Their contributions included securing the Express app against vulnerabilities, removing unused database connections, and implementing stricter authorization for queries. They also refactored payment-related components to improve performance and security, transitioning to big-endian encoded receipts and fixing a race condition. The user's work directly addressed potential vulnerabilities and improved the overall robustness of the system.
graph-protocolinfrastructuregraphindexer
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