Michael Butsko is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver reliable web and backend systems from startups to mid-market companies. He has a strong track record in payments, billing, and accounting integrations—shipping escrow accounting platforms, billing features, and conversion-focused business platform work. Equally comfortable as an individual contributor and a team lead, Michael focuses on rapid, pragmatic delivery, dependency upgrades, and moving monoliths toward modern CI/CD practices. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he pairs deep hands-on Ruby/Rails and backend experience with an emphasis on mentoring engineers to be better than him. An under-the-radar strength is his background in philosophy, which informs a thoughtful approach to cross-cutting technical problems and operational controls.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Philosophy, B.A. Philosophy at The Ohio State University
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