Ryan Buterbaugh
Co-Founder at Prota Ventures
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Buterbaugh is an investor-entrepreneur and technologist with 14 years of experience building and scaling product-led businesses from Chicago. As co-founder of Basa and managing director at Prota Ventures, he blends venture-building, hands-on product development, and strategic investing to help innovators move from idea to market. His background includes leading technical engagements at ThoughtWorks and founding Research And Me, giving him deep experience in front-end systems, AWS automation, and operationalizing research and clinical trials. Ryan’s work focuses on reducing friction in complex processes—liberating time and spend for creators—and he often sits at the intersection of product strategy, engineering delivery, and startup advisory. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Northwestern and brings a rare mix of consultancy-honed client-facing leadership and founder grit.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Northwestern University
English, German
Github Skills (3)
ubuntu7
php3
ruby1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hax0rbana-adam/ubuntu-netqmail
Mar 2015 - Jul 2019
netqmail-1.06, packaged for ubuntu trusty, with additional patches
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
ubuntu
rbuterbaugh/ubuntu-qmail-run
Feb 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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