Summary
Shawn Butts is a pragmatic Software Engineer III with 13 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and tooling. Based in Clarksburg, WV, he has progressed from Unix sysadmin roles to senior systems and cloud engineering positions, now contributing to core engineering at ScienceLogic. He specializes in Linux, Windows, macOS, virtualization, and information security, and is known for translating complex infrastructure needs into reliable, maintainable systems. Shawn blends deep operational instincts with software-centric thinking—comfortable both debugging low-level OS issues and architecting cloud services. His career shows a steady focus on observability and automation across hosting, education tech, and monitoring domains. Colleagues appreciate that he “does stuff with and to computers” with curiosity and an engineer’s skepticism that prevents brittle designs.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer