Summary
Ashley Butler is an experienced software engineer and architect with 14 years of delivering full-stack, production-grade systems, currently pursuing research in persistence theory. She has led backend architectures in Java/Spring and DevOps at scale鈥攄esigning APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker-based cloud infrastructure that cut hosting costs by over half and achieved 32x speedups in background processing. Ashley combines hands-on implementation with product-focused engineering, routinely translating complex requirements into maintainable systems and mentoring teams on agile and operational excellence. Her background spans AWS, PostgreSQL, and semantic web technologies (RDF/SPARQL), reflecting both modern cloud-native practice and deep experience in knowledge representation. As a founder she builds products end-to-end鈥攆rom APIs for business customers to a line of homebrew computers and a custom uCISC soft CPU on FPGA鈥攂ringing rare hardware-software breadth to software leadership. Based in San Jose, she blends entrepreneurial grit with a track record of measurable impact on reliability, cost, and developer velocity.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Texas A&M University