Michael Butler
DevOps Engineer at National Retail Solutions (NRS Plus)
Upper Township, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Butler is a DevOps engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, containerized systems and one-click deployments, currently driving infrastructure at National Retail Solutions. He migrated legacy LAMP stacks to in-house Kubernetes platforms at scale while at Tumblr, and brings deep practical knowledge of Docker, 12-factor apps, automated testing, and zero-trust security patterns. A memory-safe language enthusiast from Norway (GitHub bio) who lives in New Jersey, he pairs systems-level rigor with a strong testing mindset—evidenced by contributions to the ParaTest parallel PHPUnit testing project improving XML reporting and edge-case robustness. Michael mentors engineers, prioritizes readable maintainable code, and freelanced solving diverse technical challenges before rejoining full-time platform work. He balances backend, DevOps, and QA experience to reliably ship distributed systems under heavy load, and is particularly focused on improving safety and repeatability in deployment pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
phpunit10
php10
junit10
test-automation10
svn9
test-driven-design9
bash9
parallel-testing9
parallel-tests9
version-control9
code-coverage8
xml7
nginx6
hyperlink6
floating-point6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
paratestphp/paratest
May 2016 - Feb 2017
:computer: Parallel testing for PHPUnit
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 73 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to enhancing the testing framework of the ParaTest project, a parallel testing tool for PHPUnit. Their work involved modifying existing tests, adding new tests for specific PHPUnit behaviors and version compatibility, and addressing issues related to XML output and error handling. This included ensuring correct test results, addressing edge cases in the XML report generation, and improving the overall robustness of the test suite.
paralleltestingphpphpunitparallel-testing
michaelbutler/minesweeper
May 2013 - Feb 2021
WebWorker powered Minesweeper game written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Contributions:39 commits, 10 PRs, 34 pushes in 7 years 10 months
gameminesweeperminesweeper-gamecssjavascript
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