Joshย Butts
Chief Technology Officer at Foundry
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Butts is a seasoned Chief Technology Officer based in Austin, Texas, with 16 years of experience building and operationalizing developer-focused tools and services. He blends strategic technical leadership with hands-on engineering, particularly in macOS tooling and developer workflows as evidenced by his contributions to Homebrew cask management and the LaunchRocket preference pane. Comfortable across the stack, he has shipped UI-driven features and automation that keep software installs and background services reliable and up to date. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Josh combines release engineering discipline with product-minded UX improvements to simplify developer operations.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (15)
homebrew10
objective-c10
automation10
macos10
automations10
user-interface10
homebrew-cask10
package-management10
ruby9
cocoa9
applescript8
html6
css6
php6
twitter-bootstrap6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jimbojsb/launchrocket
Mar 2013 - Mar 2018
A Mac PrefPane to manage all your Homebrew-installed services
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on developing the user interface and core functionality of the LaunchRocket application, a Mac preference pane for managing Homebrew services. Their contributions involved creating service enumeration, implementing a service pane with various UI elements like segment controls and status indicators. Furthermore, they introduced features to manage services such as starting, stopping and adding them to run at login.
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Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions
May 2014 - Jun 2015
๐ Alternate versions of Casks (deprecated)
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributes to updating and maintaining Cask files, specifically for applications like PhpStorm and Firefox. Their work involves modifying URLs, version numbers, and checksums to ensure compatibility with the latest releases. The commits demonstrate a focus on keeping the Cask definitions current and accurate, essential for a package manager like Homebrew. This directly contributes to the automated installation and management of software versions.
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