Daniel Prager
Principal Consultant at EverestEngineering
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolDaniel Prager is a principal consultant and seasoned Agile/XP coach with 13+ years helping organisations and product teams lift delivery, culture, and technical quality across startups and large enterprises. He combines a PhD-level analytical background with practical experience in TDD, pair programming, legacy-code rehabilitation, Lean Startup and Theory of Constraints to shape context-sensitive Agile that actually works. A veteran founder (YouPatch, Skillfire) and long-time contributor to Melbourne’s tech community, he designs and runs engaging workshops informed by improv, Integral Facilitation and two decades teaching Japanese Jiu-jitsu. Daniel blends empathy and rigorous practice: he mentors technical leaders, engineers quality into AI/agentic development, and treats process as a servant—not a driver—of outcomes. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic change that boosts team resilience, creativity, and measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
The University of MelbourneDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics Theoretical Physics Computational Physics General Relativity, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics Theoretical Physics Computational Physics General Relativity at Monash University
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Github Skills (18)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
danprager/turtlegraphics
Sep 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 5 months
danprager/Monte-Carlo-Estimation
Feb 2016 - Jan 2020
Estimate how long a new project will take based on historical team performance
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years
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