Ford Prior
Senior Staff Engineer & Tech Evangelist at GEICO
Greater Richmond Region United States
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Top SchoolFord Prior is a Senior Staff Engineer and tech evangelist with a cloud-first track record across AWS, Capital One, CarMax, and startup ventures, blending hands-on engineering with developer advocacy. He builds scalable automation and CI/CD platforms, authored thousands of AWS code examples and led production incident response and security remediations at scale. At AWS he developed AI tooling on Bedrock (including FordGPT demos) and maintained a Docker/CDK test framework that validated examples across 11 languages, contributing to the canonical aws-doc-sdk-examples repository. He co-chairs RVA’s Code & Cloud Con and runs the Richmond Cloud Wranglers user group, actively cultivating a regional dev community and offering in-person networking. Comfortable switching hats from principal architect to code-level fixes, he pairs a humanities background in English/Spanish with an MS in Information Systems to communicate complex technical topics clearly. A knack for turning example code into reproducible, testable tooling makes him unusually effective at bridging developer experience and production reliability.
3 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University - College of EngineeringBachelor of Arts (B.A.) English & Spanish, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English & Spanish at James Madison University
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Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
backend10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
aws-sdk10
apidoc9
aws-cdk9
aws-cloudformation9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Welcome to the AWS Code Examples Repository. This repo contains code examples used in the AWS documentation, AWS SDK Developer Guides, and more. For more information, see the Readme.md file below.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:775 reviews, 311 commits, 565 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ford contributed code changes related to application and API functionalities, including changes in a CDK application using Typescript and database interactions with Aurora Serverless. They also made updates to multiple example files, and made some fixes. This user's efforts focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the AWS SDK examples for various services and tools.
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ford-at-aws/aws-doc-sdk-examples
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Welcome to the AWS Code Examples Repository. This repo contains code examples used in the AWS documentation, AWS SDK Developer Guides, and more. For more information, see the Readme.md file below.
Contributions:21 PRs, 15 pushes, 10 branches in 2 days
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