Steve Butler
Head Of Engineering, Platform & R D
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorSteve Butler is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale platform and live service architectures for games and cloud services. Currently Head of Engineering, Platform & R+D at Microsoft Casual Games, he applies bleeding-edge AI toolchains to power award-winning titles like Solitaire and Minesweeper while previously shaping core services as a Principal Software Engineer. He blends enterprise architecture, infrastructure, and developer experience to deliver reliable, scalable systems at production scale. An ex-NVIDIA, EA, and Microsoft veteran and expat Brit based in Seattle, he brings a gamer’s perspective to engineering—balancing product empathy with technical rigor. Unusually for someone at his level, he still keeps a hands-on connection to code and systems design while mentoring teams across platform, services, and live operations.
11 years of coding experience
Spanish, French
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Github Skills (81)
mdns10
dotnet9
active-directory9
authentication9
asp-net9
iis9
docker9
kubernetes9
eye-tracking9
csharp9
go9
als9
sketchup8
aac8
scheduling8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stephbu/cloudinit
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
stephbu/photo_organizer
May 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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