Chris Butler
Director Of Product Operations
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Butler is a seasoned technology leader specializing in product operations for AI-powered platforms. As Director of Product Operations at GitHub, he steers tooling, automation, and Responsible AI initiatives, while also founding Liminal Practice to advance AI learning and development. His 11+ year career spans leadership roles at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, KAYAK, and Waze, where he introduced cross-team alignment techniques like Empathy Mapping for the Machine and Confusion Mapping. He co-founded The Uncertainty Project and serves as a showrunner at Near Future Laboratory, blending strategic product thinking with speculative design and adversarial mindsets. Based in San Francisco, he writes science fiction and contributes to the broader product community through advisory and teaching engagements. His work consistently bridges practical product delivery with ethical, design-driven AI exploration.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Systems Engineering, BS Computer Systems Engineering at Boston University
Stackoverflow
743reputation
30kreached
3answers
24questions
Github Skills (25)
google-docs7
ruby-on-rails6
rspec6
sass6
jquery6
rvm6
capybara6
ajax6
twitter-bootstrap6
stem5
markdown4
internet3
html3
ros3
robotics3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrizbo/architectural-katas-2021-fall
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
chrizbo/abm-2017
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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