Tobias Butler
Creator
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Butler is a versatile software creator and founder who uses software, design, and marketing to connect people in unexpected ways, based in San Francisco. With 11 years of engineering experience, he currently leads Tuneshine, a bootstrapped hardware startup, and serves as Secretary, Tech Lead, and Founding Director at the Lewis W. Butler Foundation. His product work spans senior roles at Change.org, as well as web development stints at Louder and MyProject.is, reflecting a track record across startups and mission-driven initiatives. In open-source, he contributed to the sdelements/lets-chat project as a back-end developer, focusing on Amazon S3-backed file uploads, code refactors, and robust handling of file metadata. A Wesleyan University BA in Music suggests a creative, interdisciplinary approach to building reliable, scalable systems.
11 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 University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
31reputation
5kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
node-js10
back-end-development10
file-uploads10
javascripts10
amazon-s310
file-upload10
express-js9
mongodb8
mongodb-database8
activerecord6
protector6
ruby-on-rails6
emberjs6
reactjs6
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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