Kyle Butler
Senior Engineering Architect
Profile
I build complex commerce platforms and the systems around them. Over seven years of hands-on software engineering, architecture, and technical leadership across enterprise ecommerce for brands including SKIMS, Barnes & Noble, Glossier, Society6, Framebridge, Indigo Books, and JANUS et Cie.
Experience
Lead client-facing technical delivery across concurrent commerce projects, managing sprint execution and engineers while remaining hands-on in architecture, implementation, code review, QA, releases, and production support. Recent work spans enterprise Hydrogen programs, multi-repository applications, Shopify Functions and Cart Transforms, payment and data systems, frontend architecture, and practical AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Hands-on contributor who increasingly led project and release work across major Shopify Plus builds. Work included SKIMS, Glossier, Framebridge, Netflix.shop, Shopify Hardware, Haus Labs, and other consumer brands. By 2023, responsibilities had expanded into planning, estimation, multi-engineer QA, release leadership, mentoring, and technical integration work in addition to direct frontend implementation.
Joined SDG in September 2019 and built production storefront features and systems across SKIMS, Peet's, Intelligentsia, Stumptown, Rare Beauty, and other Shopify Plus clients. The work expanded from individual components and fixes into complex cart and checkout behavior, CMS integrations, subscriptions, search, customer accounts, international commerce, accessibility, and reusable frontend systems.
Selected work
Technical leadership and hands-on engineering for a new Shopify storefront, translating a detailed design system into modular, authorable experiences across product discovery, fabric education, product pages, cart, editorial content, accessibility, and launch readiness.
Hands-on storefront engineering and delivery leadership for a bilingual ecommerce replatform, spanning search and product discovery, high-volume listing behavior, PDP interactions, localization, content migration, integrations, accessibility, and release safety.
Hands-on engineering and technical leadership across a headless storefront and custom sales platform, with direct work in payments, quoting, inventory, pricing, product imagery, saved portfolios, and release infrastructure.
Hands-on commerce engineering across interactive fit guidance, shoppable video, promotional cart state, product discovery, launch experiences, localization, integrations, and frequent production releases.
Engineering leadership and hands-on implementation within a national-scale Hydrogen program, spanning storefront and checkout behavior, search, pricing safeguards, content tooling, security policy, caching, and controlled releases.
Technical leadership and hands-on storefront engineering within a bilingual SFCC-to-Shopify migration, with direct work across search, product listings, anonymous identity, store location, indexing, product state, performance, and launch support.
Primary frontend implementation across a custom international Shopify storefront, including accessible navigation, collection and product experiences, configurable sets, accounts, performance, localization, Global-e routing, and production releases.
Architecture, technical leadership, and hands-on launch stabilization for a hybrid-headless artist marketplace supporting a dynamically generated catalog of more than 300 million SKUs.
Project leadership and primary frontend engineering on a 10-month omnichannel replatform, with direct implementation across the storefront, persistent cart, customer accounts, retail locations, fulfillment choices, checkout, analytics, and launch hardening.
Four years of sustained hands-on engineering across an evolving commerce platform, from production Liquid work through complex bundles, international storefront behavior, performance systems, search fallbacks, and a later Hydrogen rebuild.
Focus
React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Liquid, Sass, responsive UI, accessibility
Shopify Plus, Shopify Enterprise, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Checkout Extensibility, Functions, POS
APIs, payments, product data, CMS, search, customer accounts, fulfillment, integrations
Architecture, discovery, technical planning, code review, releases, production incidents
Skills
React.js · Front-End Architecture · TypeScript · JavaScript · Node.js · Full-Stack Development · Vite · Sass / SCSS · Git
E-Commerce · Shopify Plus · Shopify Hydrogen · Liquid (Shopify) · Headless Commerce · Checkout Extensibility · Shopify Functions
Software Architecture · System Design · Solution Architecture · Systems Integration · API Design · GraphQL · Sanity (CMS) · Algolia
Technical Leadership · Engineering Management · Web Accessibility (WCAG) · Performance Optimization (Core Web Vitals) · AI-Augmented Development · Model Context Protocol (MCP)