Tom Butler
Senior Engineering Manager at Canva
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Butler is a Senior Engineering Manager and cloud/DevOps expert with 12 years’ experience building scalable web applications, internal developer tools, and platform services. He progressed from hands-on DevOps and cloud engineering roles to leadership at Geoscience Australia and Canva, where he led Kubernetes-based PaaS efforts that served terabytes of geospatial data and enabled frequent GitOps-driven changes. Tom focuses on increasing developer productivity and usability through cultural change, automation, and secure infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, Packer, EKS). He is comfortable pairing with developers, coaching teams, and designing systems that test every change for security, performance and reliability. Based in New South Wales, Australia, he combines practical operational experience supporting high-demand public APIs with a curiosity for exploring new technologies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours), Computer Software Engineering at University of Canberra
Github Skills (98)
flask10
open-data10
prototyping10
python9
google-earth-engine9
gis9
earth9
binder9
logging9
datacube9
landsat9
cube9
earth-engine9
scale8
gdal8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tom-butler/FuzzyGen
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:131 commits in 4 months
opendatacube/datacube-dask
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Docker Container for Provide Dask to the Open Data Cube applications in Kubernetes
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 8 months
cubedaskdockeropen-datakubernetes
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