Mark Butler
Head Of Engineering at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Butler is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling web platforms across the BBC and The Guardian, now serving as Head of Engineering in London. He blends hands-on technical expertise—from identity systems, OAuth providers and high-scale voting platforms to front-end video integrations for The Guardian’s DotCom—with strong people management, coaching engineering managers and nurturing entry-level talent. Mark has repeatedly led cross-functional launches (reader revenue, campaign integrations) and driven migrations to AWS while improving performance and maintainability. He’s known for balancing delivery with long-term sustainability, fostering inclusive teams, and contributing practical improvements like video tracking and analytics integration in prominent open-source repositories. A pragmatic problem solver who once earned a Vulnerability Rewards Program Hall of Fame mention, he thrives at the intersection of product, data and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Hull
English
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
front-end-development10
youtube-api10
google-analytics9
google-oauth9
json6
hibernate6
web-application6
spring-mvc6
google-account6
android6
spring6
integration-testing6
java6
react5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Oct 2014 - May 2020
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:345 commits, 149 PRs, 258 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mark focused on implementing and maintaining video-related components within the frontend application. Their contributions included adding video tracking functionality, fixing syntax errors, and integrating YouTube player functionality. They also worked on refactoring the code to improve maintainability and adding Google Analytics tracking to the video components.
productionguardian
markjamesbutler/markjamesbutler.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jun 2020
github io pure css personal site
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 8 months
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