Chris Butler
Founder at Liminal Practice
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Butler is a product operations and AI-focused product leader with 11+ years building teams and tooling at companies from Microsoft and Google to Facebook, KAYAK, Waze and GitHub. He specializes in reducing operational toil and improving decision-making for cross-functional teams through AI/ML, adversarial mindsets, and novel facilitation techniques like Empathy Mapping for the Machine and Confusion Mapping. As Director of Product Operations at GitHub he leads Synapse, shipping open-source tooling to automate AI assessment and reporting while exploring future-of-work experiments. He also runs learning and red-teaming ventures (Liminal Practice, Symboulos) and co-founded The Uncertainty Project to operationalize resilience under bias and uncertainty. An instructor, showrunner, and science-fiction writer based in Oakland, he blends design fiction and organizational craft to surface subtle sociotechnical risks before they scale.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
N/A Introduction to Computer Games (Design), N/A Introduction to Computer Games (Design) at Academy of Art UniversityBS Computer Systems Engineering, BS Computer Systems Engineering at Boston University
Stackoverflow
743reputation
30kreached
3answers
24questions
Github Skills (22)
gh-extension10
copilot10
codex8
google-docs8
ruby-on-rails6
rspec6
sass6
jquery6
rvm6
capybara6
ajax6
twitter-bootstrap6
markdown4
google-workspace4
html4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chrizbo/architectural-katas-2021-fall
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
chrizbo/agentics-beyond-code
May 2026 - Jun 2026
Agentic Workflows for PMs, ops, compliance, and other non-engineering roles
Contributions:3 PRs, 90 pushes, 18 branches in 1 month
agentic-workflow
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