Kyle Butler

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Senior Engineering Manager at Forge Foods · Embedded systems · C, embedded Linux

Forge Foods
Washington, DC · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
Stanford GSB
English
Advising
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Overview

I've spent 11 years on embedded systems - first at Databricks, now at Forge Foods. Shipped 7 launches on the firmware team without a rollback. Most at home with C and embedded Linux. Cyclist - trying to do a century this year.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on embedded systems
  • Second opinions on ARM Cortex-M decisions
  • Questions about embedded systems
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Offshore staffing offers

Replies on weekends

Skills
Rustembedded Linuxhardware bring-upARM Cortex-MCRTOS
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: embedded systems and Rust

Topics
embedded systems, RTOS, ARM Cortex-M
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

11 years of embedded systems. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Washington, DChardware bring-uprtosrust
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    May 2025 - Present
    Forge Foods · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Wrote the C service that now handles 57 million requests a day.
    • Built the experimentation framework 27 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2022 - May 2025
    Intel · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Moved 86% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Aug 2018 - Apr 2022
    Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Wrote the C service that now handles 70 million requests a day.
    • Brought on-call pages for firmware down from 22 a week to 4.
  4. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Aug 2018
    Databricks · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Moved 95% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 19% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. Stanford GSB
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. University of Michigan
    BSE, Electronics and Communication
    2010 - 2014

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