Drew Butler
Lead Software Engineer at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarDrew Butler is a product-minded lead software engineer with 13 years of experience building and shipping customer-facing systems across startups and large firms, currently leading engineering at Balyasny Asset Management in New York. He pairs hands-on prototyping and backend expertise—demonstrated by VideoPress contributions to Automattic’s widely used Jetpack plugin—with a strategic eye for product and UX. Drew has led teams at Meta, Two Sigma IQ, and Automattic, architecting greenfield apps and client-facing platforms while mentoring cross-functional engineers. He excels at stepping back to see problems from multiple angles, then rapidly validating solutions by building working prototypes. Equally comfortable in PHP, Node.js, and modern front-end stacks, he enjoys listening to founders and turning ideas into actionable roadmaps. Colleagues rely on him to blend entrepreneurship, technical depth, and practical delivery to create things people love.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (7)
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
video-encoding9
xmlrpc9
plugin8
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:155 commits, 49 PRs, 119 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Drew primarily focused on extending the functionality of the `jetpack` plugin related to the VideoPress module. They implemented and refined various methods, including adding support for different video file types and implementing a mechanism to update video metadata. The contributions also involved integrating the VideoPress uploader with the media library and adjusting the shortcode implementation for the video embeds. The user's work touched upon both backend logic and integration with the WordPress REST API.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
dbtlr/fish-bits
Oct 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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