Shaun Butler
Senior Software Engineer at Squarespace
New York, United States
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Top SchoolShaun Butler is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 14 years of professional experience and nearly 25 years of hands-on software development including college projects. He blends back-end expertise in Ruby on Rails with large-scale product delivery at companies like Squarespace and Blue Apron, where he progressed from IC to engineering manager and led a six-engineer team to build warehouse inventory systems. Early-career work included innovative systems-level hacking of Apache to implement an advanced caching layer, showing comfort with both infrastructure and application code. An active contributor to open-source Rails projects, he’s made practical improvements to forum engines like thredded by refining post-deletion flows and end-to-end feature specs. Colleagues know him for quickly ramping into new domains—whether hardware-software robotics in competition or shipping admin tools for complex recipe and purchasing workflows. He combines pragmatic engineering, cross-functional leadership, and a knack for shipping reliable tooling under fast-paced conditions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Engineering Technology, General, Bachelor's degree, Engineering Technology, General at University of Hartford
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Github Skills (8)
ruby10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
capybara10
forum10
testing10
postgresql9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
thredded/thredded
Apr 2016 - Sep 2016
The best Rails forums engine ever.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Shaun primarily focused on adding and refining functionality related to deleting posts within the Rails forums engine. Their contributions included implementing a delete action in the posts controller, creating a URL helper for the delete post path, and adding a confirmation dialog to the delete link in the view. The user also added feature specifications to verify the delete functionality for different user roles, including admin and regular users. These changes involved modifications to controllers, helpers, views, and feature specifications.
railsrails-engineevermessage-boardforum
TheDudeWithTheThing/dotfiles
Mar 2014 - Aug 2021
Contributions:39 commits, 20 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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