John Burns
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Burns is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable enterprise and eCommerce platforms, now focusing on the JVM ecosystem as part of Netflix’s Platform Engineering team. He specializes in developer experience—creating shared tooling that boosts productivity and makes life easier for engineering teams—and has advanced through roles at Grubhub and Accuity into technical leadership positions. Based in Chicago, he is an active tech community organizer and conference speaker, co-organizing Chicago Kotlin and CJUG, which reflects his commitment to knowledge sharing beyond his day job. Known for pragmatic system design and platform-level thinking, he blends hands-on coding with an eye for developer ergonomics and operational scalability.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
junit-test10
graalvm10
abstract-syntax-tree10
testing10
databases10
maven-plugin10
autocomplete10
tornadofx10
jib10
automation10
junit10
docker-registry10
docker-container10
fxgl10
maven10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nebula-plugins/nebula-archrules-plugin
Dec 2025 - Jul 2026
Gradle plugins for declaring ArchUnit rule libraries and evaluating rules in Gradle projects.
Contributions:7 releases, 10 reviews, 21 PRs in 7 months
archunitgradlegradle-plugin
wakingrufus/spring-funk
May 2024 - Oct 2025
A framework for declarative DSL configuration for Spring Boot.
Contributions:7 reviews, 98 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 4 months
dslspringspring-bootfunctional-programmingkotlin
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