Greg Overton is the Head of Research Engineering at Butlr Technologies, an anonymous thermal-sensing company for the built environment, based in Seattle, WA.
I bring complex systems together and turn them into products that actually work in the real world, for the business and the people who use them.
I lead Butlr’s research engineering function, owning the path from concept through production for new technical capabilities across edge systems, data infrastructure, ML, and AI-native operations.
01 /Pioneer the adoption of emerging technologies (AI, infrastructure, developer tooling), rapidly prototyping and evaluating new approaches for technical and commercial viability.
02 /Design and unify cross-domain systems, integrating firmware, ingest, ML, and user-facing platforms into cohesive, scalable architectures.
03 /Architect core platform infrastructure, including the edge-to-cloud ingest rearchitecture (MQTT-based, durable buffering, per-tenant routing) to support reliability at fleet scale.
04 /Build AI-native operational systems, including agentic tooling, persistent Slack-based diagnostic agents, and Butlr’s open-source MCP server.
05 /Lead the development and productionization of sensing and detection systems, including the Rust-based reimplementation of core algorithms for performance and reliability.
06 /Translate exploratory research into production-grade systems, applying disciplined experimentation to validate scalability, cost, and business impact before deployment.
07 /Act as the technical bridge across Engineering, Product, and customer-facing teams, ensuring new capabilities deliver real-world value and are maintainable in production.
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Path
Aerospace · Security · IoT
Across roles at Butlr Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, Rapid7, and the United States Air Force, the thread has been cross-functional technical leadership at the intersection of hardware, software, and whoever’s on the other end of the thing being built.
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Principal Product & Solution Architect
Butlr Technologies
Jun 2023 — Dec 2025▸
Defined and drove product and solution architecture strategy, aligning with Butlr’s mission for smarter, people-aware buildings.
Bridged Engineering, Product, Sales, and Customer Success teams to translate customer needs into delivery.
Led end-to-end implementation of bespoke customer solutions for enterprise accounts.
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Field Applications Engineer
Butlr Technologies
Nov 2022 — Jun 2023▸
Owned product development efforts for Butlr’s three largest software and hardware deployments — 50% of the total installed base.
Built outcome-based roadmaps tied to customer requirements rather than feature velocity.
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Solutions Engineering Specialist II, Cortex
Palo Alto Networks
Mar 2021 — Nov 2022▸
Technical lead for a $49M endpoint security + SOC delivery contract spanning state C-level leadership and hundreds of constituent organizations.
Architected Atlassian Confluence information flows adopted by all 12k PANW employees.
Represented the company as presenter and technical session leader at industry events.
81% POC win rate against primary competitors; closed 176 new logos; 163% attainment against OKRs.
Presenter at CISO Seattle, Black Hat, DEF CON, and eight Rapid7 Customer Roadshows.
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Cyberspace Operations & Program Management
United States Air Force
2013 — 2018▸
Four roles across five years — cyber operations, space operations, and S&T program management.
Weapons & Tactics and Attack Crew Commander, 91st Cyberspace Operations Squadron — led a cross-functional team of 11 designing and deploying the Air Force’s top-requested cyber attack weapon suite globally.
Section Chief, Nuclear Detonation Detection — managed the NUDET payload for a 34-satellite fleet including GPS Block III.
S&T Portfolio Manager, F-35 Joint Program Office — $45M portfolio spanning 16 cutting-edge manufacturing, software, and production programs.
Open-source Model Context Protocol server for Butlr—published to npm under OIDC trusted publishing, so integrators can plug Butlr into their own agents.
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Claude-native development workflows
Reusable GitHub workflows, agentic CI, and persistent agent-supported operations tooling deployed at platform scale.
