Corey Butler
Managing Director at Ecor Ventures
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey B is a managing director and serial founder in Austin with 14 years of focused experience building developer tools, platforms, and open-source communities. He leads Ecor Ventures and co-founded Author Software Inc., driving developer-experience products like Runtime while incubating projects such as enabledb and metadoc. A hands-on systems engineer and entrepreneur, he originated and continues to steward nvm-windows — a widely adopted Node.js version manager for Windows — implementing system-level features in Go including privilege elevation and link management. His career spans enterprise BI and data engineering through to startup productization, giving him rare fluency across product, engineering, and go-to-market. Now focused on productizing developer infrastructure, he builds enterprise-ready DX tooling informed by deep operational and open-source impact.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Computer Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Computer Systems at Bradley University: Foster College of Business
English, German
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Github Skills (30)
filesystem10
scripting10
file-manipulation10
file-systems10
windows-services10
file-system10
file-io10
filesystems10
script10
sh10
nodejs10
shell10
server10
npm9
go9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
coreybutler/nvm-windows
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
A node.js version management utility for Windows. Ironically written in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 59 reviews, 303 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Corey appears to be primarily responsible for developing core functionalities of the "nvm-windows" utility. They started with the initial skeleton and then added a significant amount of code, including the foundation for version management, installation, and use of different Node.js versions. Their contributions involve interacting with the system's shell, and include the creation of a utility to elevate priviledges and managing links. The user's work also touches on build/packaging with the inclusion of files.
golangwindowsnode-jsversioningnodejs
coreybutler/goose
Aug 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 4 months
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