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Devon Sawatsky Burnham

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Summary

I'm a highly motivated, skilled, and conscientious software developer. I care deeply about writing correct, performant, maintainable code - leveraging tools to support this vision when humans fall short.

Skills

  • Languages
    • Rust
    • C#
    • Python
    • TypeScript

Relevant Work Experience

Software Engineer at DraftKings - Aug. 2024 -> present

  • Designed, delivered, and maintained critical, high-performance, distributed Rust and C# ETL services in the core data pipeline with Kafka and ASP.NET

Full Stack Software Developer at Sports IQ Analytics - Sept. 2021 -> Aug. 2024

  • Built & fixed web-based backend tools in Rust and Node.js - greenfield and brownfield
  • Created & promoted the company's first continuous integration pipeline with CircleCI
  • Deployed and maintained tools in a Google Cloud environment
  • Started as a co-op student (intern), consistently promoted to reach the full-stack developer title

Education

I have a Bachelor of Science in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University. I graduated first class with distinction, plus a concentration in theoretical computing science.

I particularly enjoyed my classes in programming language design & compilers, computability & complexity, biomedical computing, and AI.

Less Relevant Experience

I worked at a bookstore for a year, and I spent a summer lifting things for a moving company. I have history writing Java, embedded and non-embedded C++, VHDL, and MATLAB. The first code I ever wrote was a mod to add a new ore to Minecraft when I was 12. I dabbled in circuits and electronics design, I've been a member of my community garden organization since I was 11, I go hiking and enjoy bird photography.