Jared Burns

Jared Burns is the Director of Service Platform at Nike. Based on his LinkedIn profile, here are some key details about his professional background:

Experience

• Current Role: Director, Service Platform at Nike (since August 2022)

  • Leads the development of Nike's in-house developer platform
  • Provides secure, scalable, and reliable application hosting, runtime management, and network connectivity for application development teams
  • Leverages open source technologies like Kubernetes, OAM, and Istio at scale

• Previous Roles at Nike:

  • Principal Engineer, Enterprise Platforms (February 2018 - August 2022)
  • Spearheaded new platform development from proposal to delivery and adoption
  • Set platform vision and direction
  • Engaged with customers across Nike's technology domains
  • Contributed as an individual contributor

Prior Work History

• Head of Engineering at Antenna.is (July 2015 - January 2018)
• Employee #001 at Krumplr Inc. (October 2014 - August 2015)
• Various technical leadership and engineering roles at IBM (2004-2014)
• Software Engineer at Object Technology International (2001-2003)

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Bucknell University (1997-2001)

Skills and Expertise

• Software development (web applications, rich clients, iOS)
• Platform development and engineering
• Technical leadership and architecture
• Open source technologies (Kubernetes, OAM, Istio)

Jared has over 20 years of experience in software development and engineering leadership roles, with a strong background in platform development and enterprise software. He has been with Nike since 2018, progressing from Principal Engineer to his current director-level position overseeing Nike's service platform.