About Will
Will Button is a 30-year engineering veteran, educator, and storyteller who has built his career at the intersection of software reliability, high-growth startups, and technical leadership. Today he serves as an Engineering Manager at Katana, where he helps architect and scale the infrastructure powering one of the fastest-growing DeFi ecosystems.
Before joining Katana, Will led DevOps at Polygon Labs, supporting global engineering teams and large-scale production systems across the AggLayer and Polygon’s chain ecosystem. He’s best known publicly as the former co-host of the Adventures in DevOps podcast, where his candid, engineer-first interviews dissected everything from Web3 node operations at scale to CI/CD observability, platform engineering, incident management, and the realities of modern infrastructure.
Will’s career spans early-stage startup work, advisory roles, and hands-on engineering excellence. As the founder of Will Button, LLC, he spent a decade helping non-technical founders turn ideas into functioning products, shipping MVPs, building cost-efficient cloud infrastructure, coaching engineering teams, and aligning technical strategy to revenue. His background also includes leadership roles in fitness tech (Aaptiv) and cross-industry experience in healthcare, retail, logistics, and education.
He is the author of Hands-On Blockchain Development in 7 Days and has published more than 150 technical videos for Egghead.io, Pluralsight, Caster.io, and YouTube. His writing, including pieces like The Minimum Viable Fitness Protocol for Busy Engineers and A Blockchain Guide for the Over-40 Crowd, blends deep engineering knowledge with human stories, practicality, and hard-earned wisdom.
Offline, Will is known for endurance running, a relentless focus on long-term health, and the Christmas Day Rescue Story in which he discovered an injured mountain biker in the Arizona desert and coordinated emergency extraction. A moment that shaped his philosophy around preparedness, personal responsibility, and the quiet leadership engineers show under pressure.
Whether he’s building infrastructure, mentoring engineers, or breaking down DevOps concepts for global audiences, Will’s work is anchored in clarity, accountability, and empowering technical teams to deliver excellent software at scale.
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