Chris Prather
Engineering Manager at CPAN
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Prather is an engineering manager and founder with nearly two decades of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience across startups and enterprise healthcare and tooling companies. He has grown and organized high-performing teams—from scaling a five-person group into 20+ engineers to creating feature-aligned working groups and career ladders—and has led cross-functional delivery for complex bioinformatics and lab automation projects. A pragmatic polyglot, he ships production systems in Perl, Go, JavaScript and Postgres, maintains CPAN modules, and contributed notable improvements to the widely used perlbrew tooling. Entrepreneurial and product-minded, Chris has run a decade-long consulting practice, launched Bespoke software under Tamarou, and founded an afterschool product that enrolled 300+ students in its first year. Based in Orlando, he blends deep technical craftsmanship with processes (RFCs, hiring loops, on-call practices) that scale engineering organizations while keeping developer experience central.
19 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
AA General Studies, AA General Studies at Valencia CollegeHonors, Honors at Seminole State College of FloridaBA English: Technical Communication, BA English: Technical Communication at University of Central Florida
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
perl10
makefile9
env8
build-automation8
devops8
environ8
cli7
command-line7
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gugod/App-perlbrew
Mar 2010 - Mar 2010
Manage perl installations in your $HOME
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the `app-perlbrew` project, a tool for managing Perl installations. Their contributions include adding features like a force switch and a -D option, improving code readability, and incorporating support for local::lib. They also addressed build and configuration issues, optimizing the Makefile and updating documentation. Their work encompassed both back-end logic enhancements and some DevOps aspects by configuring environment variables and the project's build process.
installationsperl
perigrin/blackjack-10
Jun 2016 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 pushes in 8 years 3 months
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