Summary
Daniel Buttig is a pragmatic software developer with nine years of professional experience and 15+ years of backend expertise, specializing in Ruby on Rails and scalable SaaS platforms for higher education and enterprise customers. He has led high-traffic systems—overseeing Analyze, a Rails app handling tens of millions of daily page views backed by multi-terabyte PostgreSQL—and built APIs and services for messaging, maps, reservations, and analytics. Daniel moved an AI agent from concept to production on an accelerated timeline, integrating custom prompt engineering and AWS Bedrock to cut customer service overhead. Comfortable leading teams or contributing individually, he champions open collaboration, TDD, and cross-functional delivery to meet business requirements. Based in Kansas City, he pairs fast technology learning with a practical focus on quality and measurable impact.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Truman State University