Scott Butler
Software Dev Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolScott Butler is a versatile Software Development Engineer II with 14 years of hands-on experience building developer tools, backend services, testing infrastructure, and localization features across Amazon and AWS. He thrives on making technology approachable and creating tools he would use himself, with deep interests in compilers, cloud computing, and language/DSL design informed by active contributions to notable open-source projects like ZIO and specs2. A generalist by design, he bridges systems-level work (Windows P/Invoke, Bazel rules, sbt) with higher-level service design and test automation, and has practical experience launching microservices at AWS. Scott pairs strong engineering craftsmanship with teaching experience and an academic background from the University of Utah, and he’s currently exploring the mathematical foundations of functional programming via Milewski’s category theory materials. He also brings uncommon cross-cultural curiosity, having contributed Hebrew localization to Humanizer and a history of internationalization-focused work for Alexa.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahPre-Engineering Degree, Computer Science Pre-Major, Pre-Engineering Degree, Computer Science Pre-Major at Salt Lake Community College
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (63)
asynchronous10
unit-testing10
bsp10
concurrent-programming10
wp-api10
async10
testing10
net10
zio10
sbt10
dotnet10
build-system10
test-framework10
winapi10
interop10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf
Sep 2017 - Feb 2021
Bartosz Milewski's 'Category Theory for Programmers' unofficial PDF and LaTeX source
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 3 reviews, 187 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the LaTeX source code for a book on category theory. Their work involved scraping content, converting it to LaTeX, refactoring code snippets, and setting up the build process using Nix and Travis CI. They also added Scala snippets and refined the build process for different language versions of the book. Furthermore, the user tweaked page margins and fixed font issues, enhancing the overall presentation of the book.
cpppdffunctional-programminghaskellcategory
zio/zio
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for async and concurrent programming in Scala
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 31 commits, 41 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and adding support for command-line arguments in the testing framework. They modified existing test tasks and added new tests to verify functionalities. These changes involved modifying Scala code, integrating source location information, and refactoring test renderers to improve reporting. They also improved the overall testing experience for the ZIO library.
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