Grant Burry

Profile

Product-focused full-stack engineer, startup co-founder, and hacker. Focused on shipping impactful web products; known for versatility and a strong record in user experience innovation. Loves skiing, travel, and electronic music.

Experience

Led a small engineering team for a conversational AI platform startup. Shipped Next.js web app surfaces for real-time multi-modal chat, discovery, billing, and onboarding. Managed the entire software development lifecycle, leveraging AI tooling and modern DevOps to accelerate time-to-ship.

Deployed and maintained software solutions for enterprise digital asset operations. Participated in all phases of the research, design, test, and implementation process, helped modify project scope, identified and troubleshooted product implementation and efficiency.

Developed modern Next.js + Express + GraphQL TypeScript applications at scale, building a work-readiness platform that drives lifelong skills for everyone. Owned major end-to-end projects, including video platform migrations, UX overhauls, and CMS tools.

Developed scalable solutions with the Salesforce platform to improve the experience and performance of VMware's global partner ecosystem, reaching thousands of VMware's partner organizations.

Architected, designed, and developed a marketplace platform to facilitate the procurement of construction goods and services between contractors and project managers. Co-inventor on a utility patent (US16/602,026).

Education

Coursework included software dev tools & fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, networking, sysadmin, OS, data science, cybersecurity, entrepreneurship, & philosophy.

Skills

  • Full Stack Engineering (TypeScript, Next.js, React.js, Tailwind, GraphQL, tRPC, ORMs)
  • Software Architecture (IaaS/PaaS, Analytics, Telemetry, Agile sprints, DevOps & CI/CD)
  • Solutions Engineering
  • Engineering Management

Projects

Invited to attend the Apple World Wide Developer's Conference on behalf of Apple as scholarship winner. Applied with projects including a second-screen iPad kiosk app, an in-school gaming site and chatroom with iOS app, a "smart" alarm, a home dashboard, and an automated school holiday display / music DJ app.