Jeff Prouty
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Prouty is a seasoned engineering leader and builder with 10+ years delivering cross-disciplinary products spanning mobile, web, services, and hardware. He led Project Starline at Google as Staff Engineer and tech lead for the main application—demonstrating the technology at Google I/O—and grew a high-performing team while running a large lab and operational program. His career blends hands-on systems and graphics engineering (Jump Camera, MapsGL, Street View) with product-facing work that improves user metrics, like the Airbnb help SPA that increased issue resolution and bookings. As CTO of DroneSeed he designed flight planning and autonomous aircraft systems, bringing full-stack sense to robotics and field testing. He contributes practical back-end improvements to open-source projects (e.g., mintapi fixes for stability and session handling), showing a focus on quality and maintainability. Based in Seattle with a University of Washington engineering background, he’s known for building strong team culture and promoting engineers into lasting impact roles.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at University of Washington
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Github Skills (7)
api10
selenium-ide10
selenium10
python10
apidoc10
http-request9
webscraping9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mintapi/mintapi
Sep 2017 - Jul 2021
an unofficial screen-scraping "API" for Mint.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 6 PRs, 74 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the unofficial API for Mint.com. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to date handling and session management within the API, and refactoring the codebase to use selenium-requests. The user also addressed flake8 errors to improve code quality and maintainability, and made other improvements to the core API functionality.
screen-scraping
jprouty/mint-amazon-tagger
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Tool for labeling Mint transaction from Amazon purchases
Contributions:30 releases, 6 reviews, 334 commits in 5 years 5 months
pythonreservation-systemmintamazonlabeling
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