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Devon Sawatsky Burnham

Vancouver, Canada | email or linkedin

Summary

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

Relevant Work Experience

Software Engineer at DraftKings - Aug. 2024 -> present

  • Optimized and expanded a central calculation library through its transition from C# to Rust
  • Designed, delivered, and maintained distributed C# ETL services in the core data pipeline with Kafka and ASP.NET
  • Mentored new hires and other coworkers as a Rust subject-matter expert
  • Held on-call responsibility for revenue-critical systems, responding to incidents and fixing production

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 with Kubernetes
  • 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 (2023). I graduated first class with distinction (summa cum laude), plus a concentration in theoretical computing science. I was consistently on the Dean's List and President's List.

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

Skills

Rust • C# • Python • TypeScript / JavaScript

Technical

  • Multithreaded & asynchronous programming
  • Performance optimization - throughput, latency, resource consumption
  • Low-level, unsafe code; FFI; ABI considerations
  • Legacy system modernization & refactoring
  • Developer tooling & DX; CI/CD & DevOps

Interpersonal

  • Conflict resolution & compromise
  • Cross-functional and cross-cultural communication
  • Crisis management in high-stress situations
  • User empathy & understanding

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. I started coding when I was 12. I've dabbled in circuits and electronics design, I speak English (native) and French (barely), I've been a member of my community garden organization since I was 11, I go hiking and enjoy bird photography, I listen to industrial techno and read widely.