Chris Butler
Engineering Manager at platformthirteen
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
🤩
RockstarChris Butler is an engineering manager and founder with 12 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently based in New Haven, Connecticut. He blends hands-on backend development—evidenced by long-term maintenance of the popular Meteor router iron-router—with team leadership and product-focused engineering at National Research Corporation and Platform Thirteen. Comfortable shipping fixes, dependency upgrades, and feature enhancements, he brings practical reliability to systems integration and legacy-code maintenance. Known for balancing founder-level initiative with managerial discipline, he helps teams move from technical debt to sustainable delivery. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem solving that keeps production systems running while enabling future growth.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
url-routing10
javascript10
meteor10
package-management10
middleware9
template-tags8
templater8
template-engine8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
iron-meteor/iron-router
Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
A client and server side router designed specifically for Meteor.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 13 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `iron-router` package for the Meteor framework. Their contributions include bumping dependency versions for `iron:middleware-stack`, `iron:layout`, `iron:url`, `iron:controller`, and `iron:location`. They also implemented changes to support a custom `noRoutesTemplate` and clarified default template behavior, alongside addressing several bug fixes and feature enhancements. Finally, they updated package versions to fix bugs.
routermeteorserver-side
iron-meteor/iron-cli
Jun 2015 - Jan 2017
A scaffolding command line tool for Meteor applications.
Contributions:17 releases, 68 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 7 months
command-line-toolscaffoldingmeteorcli
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.