Tim Butler
Principal Software Engineer at Rhythm
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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SeniorTim Butler is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native Python services and APIs, currently leading platform work at Rhythm in the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He specializes in Django, Django REST Framework, AWS, Kubernetes and has a strong track record migrating legacy systems to maintainable microservice architectures. At The Washington Post he rebuilt core article APIs, implemented disaster recovery and managed AWS/ECS deployments and CDN rules to keep high-traffic sites resilient during major events. Previously as Lead Architect at TrackMaven he co-designed Kubernetes and Kafka-based data pipelines and drove Docker-first developer workflows and CI/CD integrations. Comfortable across the stack, Tim pairs pragmatic engineering with operational ownership—frequently owning on-call responsibilities and cross-team stakeholder coordination. His background in telecom and enterprise systems gives him a disciplined approach to reliability and data integrity that often surfaces in his architecture choices.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (33)
charts8
vpc8
amazon-web-services8
amazon7
kubernetes7
helm7
aws7
relay6
kubernetes-deployment6
api6
aws-cloudformation6
kubernetes-cluster6
cli5
terraform-module5
package-manager5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
timbtlr/LeagueStats
Dec 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
TrackMaven/getting-started-with-drf-angular
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
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