Chris Pryer
Principal Software Engineer at NFI
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Pryer is a Principal Software Engineer in the New York City area with a decade of experience building data-rich engineering systems and leading NFI’s Digital Twin initiative. He progressed through roles at NFI from intern to principal, designing models, storage, and tooling that bridge operational engineering and software. Comfortable in both back-end and DevOps contexts, he contributes to high-performance open-source projects in Rust and Python—work that includes enhancements to the fast ruff linter, the rye Python manager, and the Polars dataframe engine. Chris blends practical product-facing delivery with low-level code quality improvements, and his background in Management Information Systems gives him a pragmatic focus on usability and maintainability. An uncommon strength is his cross-domain fluency: shipping production digital twin systems while actively improving developer tooling in open source.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at County College of MorrisBachelor’s Degree Management Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Management Information Systems at Rowan University
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Github Skills (34)
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time-series10
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dataframe10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
astral-sh/rye
Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
a Hassle-Free Python Experience
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:107 reviews, 26 PRs, 255 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed significantly to the `rye` project, a Python package manager, by enhancing its functionality and streamlining its build process. Their work includes refactoring code, adding new commands like shell completion and publish, and improving the codebase through clippy lints. They also integrated git initialization within the init command, which likely improved the project's usability and development workflow. Moreover, the user focused on adding and modifying publish-related features like token management, GPG signing, and file upload.
package-managerpackagingpython
astral-sh/ruff
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:151 reviews, 1 commit, 24 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris's primary contributions involve enhancing the functionality and code quality of the "ruff" linter and code formatter. They focused on implementing new checks and formatters for specific Python code style issues, such as the "W292" rule for missing newlines at the end of files and the formatting of `continue`, `delete`, and `assert` statements. The user also worked on formatting expressions like `DictComp` and adapting the tuple formatting rules within comprehension. Their contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of the project's codebase and the Python language.
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