Tobias Butler
Creator
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Butler is a San Francisco–based creator and software engineer with 12 years of experience building web and backend systems, productizing ideas from prototype to solo hardware startup. He’s shipped production services at Change.org across multiple engineering levels and now runs Tuneshine where he combines software, design, and marketing for a bootstrapped hardware product. Tobias contributes to open-source projects like the self-hosted chat app lets-chat, where he improved file uploads and integrated S3 storage—showing a practical focus on reliable infrastructure and reusable server-side code. He also serves as Secretary and Tech Lead for a family foundation that funds architecture and design scholarships, blending technical leadership with community-minded philanthropy.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music at Wesleyan UniversitySan Francisco University High School
Spanish
Stackoverflow
31reputation
5kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
back-end-development10
amazon-s310
file-upload10
nodejs10
expressjs9
mongodb8
mongodb-database8
activerecord6
protector6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
emberjs6
ruby6
ios6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sdelements/lets-chat
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Self-hosted chat app for small teams
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on enhancing file upload functionality within the self-hosted chat application. Their work involved integrating Amazon S3 for file storage, modifying server-side code to handle S3 interactions, and ensuring the front-end displayed file information correctly. They also refactored the upload code to improve reusability and consistency, and addressed file naming issues.
reactzulipchat-apphostedchat
tuneshine/tuneshine-client-esp-idf-releases
Jun 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:29 releases, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
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