Connor Burton

Principal Software Engineer

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Profile

Principal Software Engineer building scalable systems and delivering measurable business impact.

Skills

Software
Development

Building scalable software solutions.

Technical Leadership

Lead technical teams to deliver high-impact solutions.

Build Value

Align engineering efforts with business value.

Technical

Node.js
JavaScript / TypeScript
React

Rust
SQL / NoSQL
PHP

Go (Golang)
AWS / Azure / IBM
Docker / Kubernetes

Experience

GoDaddy

Principal Software Engineer (V) - Independents

Jun. 2024-Present

Eng - Software Development V. Principal Engineer in the Independents organisation, operating in a horizontal team

Architect and maintain data pipelines processing 100M+ events daily on AWS, using Lambda, SQS/SNS, and DynamoDB, with TypeScript
Develop and scale the largest GraphQL service in the company, handling up to 200K TPM
Delivered key components for GoDaddy Airo™ All Access, featured during Super Bowl 2025
Led AI-driven R&D analysing tens of millions of domain names to uncover actionable insights
Reduced AWS costs by $500K+/year
Mentored 3 engineers across multiple teams
Contribute actively to the company Tech Radar, influencing Redis/Valkey adoption and best practices

Principal Software Engineer (V) - Partners

Apr. 2023-Jun. 2024

Eng - Software Development V. Principal engineer in the Partners organisation, across multiple business units and teams

Led multi-team migration from on-premise infrastructure to AWS Kubernetes, improving scalability and reliability
Contributed to development of a Rust-based edge proxy, enhancing performance and control at the edge
Improved monitoring and resiliency for Tier 0/1 applications, significantly reducing downtime
Introduced a unified documentation framework to standardise technical writing across teams
Automated CI/CD and development workflows, improving developer velocity
Hosted weekly technical deep dives to promote cross-team knowledge sharing

Senior Node Developer (IV)

Sep. 2021-Apr. 2023

Senior developer in the Recomm organisation, providing unified eCommerce services to EMEA brands

Development, enhancements & technical debt resolution of business critical services
Developed TypeScript microservices for EMEA brands (123-Reg, HostEurope & more)
Resolved architectural issues, reducing outages by 80% and improving service stability
Revamped CI builds, cutting build times by multiple factors
Drove adoption of monitoring and observability tooling across services
Containerised workloads with Docker and Kubernetes, improving deployment consistency

Civica

Software Developer

Sep. 2017-Aug. 2021

MERN Stack Occupational Health product, deployed on IBM Cloud

Feature development, enhancements, bug fixing & technical debt resolution
Architected and delivered multi-team B2B integration under budget and ahead of schedule
Maintained and encouraged security best practices
Introduced linting, code reviews, CI builds, Git Flow + much more tooling
Integrated and maintained 3rd party services

(Previously Warwick IC Systems, Acquired 2019)

Purpose Media

PHP Developer

Jan. 2015-Aug. 2017

WordPress, Laravel & Bespoke PHP Projects
Lead & mentored a team of ~6 developers
Drastically improved & streamlined WordPress projects
Core contributor to the OSS project Timber

Lumici

Web Application Developer

Jul. 2015-Dec. 2015

Educational Technology Startup (Laravel/MySQL/React), deployed on AWS

First technical hire, managed team growth
Developed a drag & drop lesson planner with integration into popular resources (Youtube, Wikipedia, etc)