Glenn Pratt
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolGlenn Pratt is a Principal Software Engineer in Portland with 15 years building and modernizing large-scale cloud and platform infrastructure. He has led teams and technical initiatives at Akamai, Meta, and Acquia—driving PaaS rewrites on Kubernetes, multi-tenant database and caching services, and optimizations that reduced Meta’s allocated DB footprint by 16 petabytes. A hands-on technical lead and mentor, he blends DevOps, production engineering, and language-level performance work (Python-to-Rust integrations) to shrink memory and operational costs. He’s pragmatic about team process, having introduced lightweight Scrum practices and served as rotating Scrum Master to improve collaboration and on-call readiness. Comfortable from high-level architecture to toolchain implementation, he’s repeatedly delivered scalable automation and orchestration for complex, multi-tenant systems. Outside the obvious, he brings a history of shipping marketplace and payment integrations early in his career, giving him a product-minded perspective on infrastructure decisions.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
glennpratt/microbus
Jul 2018 - Oct 2023
Turn a Rubygem into a tarball for deployment, including native gems.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 4 comments in 5 years 4 months
test-kitchentarballrailsdeploymentruby
glennpratt/gelf-rs
Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 months
rustwipgelf
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