Richö Butts
Driver at Means to a Send, LLC
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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RockstarRichö Butts is an experienced software engineer with 15 years of cross-disciplinary work spanning security, backend, DevOps, and tooling, based in San Francisco. He has shipped production-grade security improvements at Stripe—hardening certificate validation across both Python and PHP client libraries—and contributed to widely used open-source projects like rust.vim, pygit2, and the Ace editor. Comfortable across languages and layers, he’s implemented debugger UIs, semantic version parsers, and runtime console fixes, showing a knack for stabilizing and hardening developer tooling. Past roles include security engineering at Stripe, systems and DevOps positions at 99designs and Box+Dice, and QA/engineering work at Gravity and Lightstep, reflecting both startup and product-scale experience. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and interoperability fixes that quietly improve robustness across ecosystems. He’s equally likely to dive into low-level iteration protocols as to document SSL preflight approaches—practical, security-minded, and focused on developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (61)
debugging10
git10
javascript10
ssl10
tls1210
cert10
pytest10
python10
validations10
stripe10
apidoc10
console10
scripting10
testing10
text-manipulation10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
snare/voltron
Sep 2013 - Mar 2016
A hacky debugger UI for hackers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 10 PRs, 16 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Richö primarily contributed to the Voltron debugger UI, enhancing its functionality and improving its compatibility with different debuggers such as LLDB and GDB. They worked on various aspects of the UI, including view rendering, register display, and memory access, as well as addressing compatibility issues across different Python versions. The user integrated interactive features, enabling communication with debugging sessions for more advanced control and data retrieval. Additionally, the user added support for architectures such as PowerPC and improved the user experience by ensuring a stable, error-resilient application.
pythonlldbvtracewindbgdebugging
rust-lang/rust.vim
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
Vim configuration for Rust.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 22 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Richö primarily contributed to the Vim configuration for Rust, adding and modifying features related to syntax highlighting and code completion. They updated the configuration to reflect changes in the Rust language, such as renaming traits and types. The user implemented and refined the integration with the Rust playpen, adding support for sharing code snippets. They also updated the configuration with new features such as rudimentary support for the playpen.
rustvim
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