Scott Prager
Programmer at Lost Attic Games
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Prager is a seasoned programmer with 15 years of experience focused on API design, template metaprogramming, and functional approaches to software. He has production systems and automation experience from six years as an SWE/SRE at Google and now applies that reliability mindset to game development at Lost Attic Games. An active open-source contributor, Scott improved core terminal handling and input reliability in the high-profile Neovim project, tackling subtle focus-loss and buffer-validity issues. He combines low-level systems thinking with practical tooling experience, shipping fixes that improve developer ergonomics in widely used editor infrastructure. Based in Missouri, he brings a pragmatic, debugging-first approach to complex concurrency and I/O problems. Outside of work he favors contributions that stabilize developer workflows rather than flashy features, reflecting a bias for durable engineering.
15 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, General education, High School Diploma, General education at Garber High School
Github Skills (10)
c1710
neovim10
vim10
terminal-emulator10
api10
c1110
terminal-application10
emulation10
text-editor10
lua9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
neovim/neovim
Nov 2014 - May 2015
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 29 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott focused on improving the Neovim terminal functionality, including bug fixes and feature enhancements. Their contributions involved modifying terminal handling, addressing focus loss issues, and improving key input handling. The user also worked on ensuring terminal buffer validity and implemented a system for managing server interactions. These changes primarily impacted core terminal operations within the Neovim editor.
usabilityapiluavimvim-plugin
splinterofchaos/Pure
Jul 2012 - Oct 2014
Contributions:399 commits in 2 years 2 months
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