Nicholas Butts
Senior Staff Software Engineer at John Deere
Fargo, North Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Butts is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and shipping ruggedized embedded systems and advanced imaging/telematics platforms for agriculture and aviation. He currently leads software architecture and research engineering at John Deere after a long tenure at Appareo Systems where he grew from senior engineer to director-level roles, driving prototype development and productization. Nicholas combines deep embedded systems expertise with hands-on leadership, having led teams that produced award-winning products like Stratus and Vision 1000 and contributed to the GreenStar display line. He holds an M.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and is a named patent holder stemming from his graduate work, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and practical innovation. Notably, he moves quickly from proof-of-concept to scalable implementation, bridging research and production in safety- and mission-critical domains.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at North Dakota State University
Github Skills (77)
python10
deep-learning10
inpainting10
ml10
neural-network10
generative-art10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
robotics9
linux9
object-detection9
windows9
image-generation9
stable-diffusion9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nlbutts/KicadLib
Nov 2016 - Feb 2024
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
nlbutts/LaserBodyRoll
Sep 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:107 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
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