Chris Guidry
Staff Software Engineer at Prefect
Belgrade, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolChris Guidry is a Staff Software Engineer with over two decades of web development experience and eleven years in senior technical roles, currently shaping resilient infrastructure at Prefect. He emphasizes fundamentals—web standards, sound architecture, and simple solutions—while balancing hands‑on back-end and DevOps contributions, including telemetry and Kubernetes runner work for the popular Prefect workflow orchestration project. Chris has progressed from individual contributor to engineering leader at companies like O'Reilly Media and Honor, where mentoring, team growth, and spreading joy were core responsibilities. Based in Belgrade, Maine, he brings a pragmatic engineering philosophy rooted in philosophy studies, which surfaces as clear thinking and principled tradeoffs in complex systems. Colleagues know him for strengthening teams as much as code, and for quietly improving observability and developer ergonomics behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
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Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
workflow-engine10
dockers10
automation10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
orchestration10
orchestra10
telemetry10
testing9
devops9
data-engineering8
rust6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
PrefectHQ/prefect
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1059 reviews, 144 commits, 548 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the back-end infrastructure of the Prefect workflow orchestration framework by implementing telemetry features. Their work involved adding Python environment information to the telemetry data collection, including the platform, architecture, and Python version. They also implemented features for the Kubernetes flow runner by allowing users to customize the Job manifest and providing options to override any component of the Job. Additionally, the user made improvements to the tests, and they fixed issues and updated dependency versions.
pythondataobservabilityml-opsdataflow
PrefectHQ/prefect-github
Jul 2022 - Feb 2024
Prefect integrations for interacting with GitHub
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
prefectintegrationsgraphql
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