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Steve Butterworth

Based in Cambridge UK. I run a small Ruby On Rails consultancy helping small companies create compelling web based products. I also have my own side projects and am currently prototyping an innovative app where web2.0 meets the browser.

Headline: Engineer
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://www.humbletechnologies.com
Industries: Computing, Internet, Retail, Travel
Skills: AJAX, Databases, Design, Engineering, HTML / CSS, Javascript, PHP, Rails, Software Engineering, Web design, Web Development
Next step: Build a small founding team including designer, developers, business minds and marketers that can help secure funding and a successful launch of my latest idea. If you are any of these people and fancy hearing more about the prototype I am building then please get in touch.
Location: Cambridge, UK
Groups: CUTEC, Seedcamp
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Getting press, Helping friends, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Trading services
Schools: University of Manchester

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Humble Technologies
Position: Founder
Time period: January 2006 - Present
Description: I currently run a small Ruby ON Rails development and consultancy business in Cambridge, UK. In any spare time left over from client work I am building a web application that hooks into the browser and changes the way you surf

Employer: i2 Limited
Position: Senior Software Developer
Time period: July 2002 - December 2005
Description: I lead the development of web based toolkit which helped some of the world biggest law enforcement agencies better visualize linkages within their data. Read more about the product here http://www.i2.co.uk/solutions/technology/i2ixvsdk.asp

Employer: Future TV Ltd
Position: Software Developer
Time period: September 2001 - June 2002
Description: Responsible for developing complex AJAX interfaces before the term AJAX was coined and before the days of great Javascript libraries. The interfaces were optimized for TV and used to front sophisticated set top box applications. Position also included extensive PHP work.

Employer: Crystal Decisions
Position: Software Developer
Time period: September 1999 - July 2001
Description: Responsible for developing enterprise scale web based application. We took functionality from popular Crystal desktop products and adapted it to create a compelling web based solution.

EDUCATION

University: University of Manchester
Time period: 1996 - 1999
Degree: Comoputer Science, BSc

Steve's Startups (1)

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  • Smuddle

    Still in stealth mode, but basically it brings slick web 2.0 features right into your browser making finding and saving the content you want a whole lot easier. Get in touch to find out more!