Oliver Butler
Lead Software Engineer at Onsi
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Butler is a Lead Software Engineer based in London with 7 years of experience building full-stack web applications and APIs, currently driving engineering at Onsi. He combines a practical background in cybersecurity with hands-on expertise in TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node/Express and NX, and has contributed to the open-source ts-rest project to make typed, RPC-like REST clients and servers more ergonomic. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping code, he’s moved from consultancy work at Theodo to in-house roles while maintaining freelance and volunteer projects that sharpen product-minded thinking. Known for intentionally "breaking things" to rebuild them better, he blends pragmatic engineering, developer DX improvements, and a focus on modular, publishable code.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at Newcastle University
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Github Skills (18)
nxos10
expressjs10
apidoc10
typescript10
nextjs10
api10
rest10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
javascript9
openapi9
oracle-sql-developer6
deserialization6
oracle-11g6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ts-rest/ts-rest
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
RPC-like client, contract, and server implementation for a pure REST API
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 122 reviews, 367 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Oliver contributed to the development of a REST API with TypeScript, utilizing React and Next.js. They created an NX boilerplate, made the project publishable, and added client-side typing. The user implemented the base of a react application and completed the back-end implementation with a working express server. These actions demonstrate their experience with back-end and front-end technologies in a modern web development project.
apirpcmswcontractrest
oliverbutler/graph-notes
May 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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