Hello world.

I'm Ed Prats and I build curious things.

I am an engineering manager forged in the fires of the IC start-up world.

I have built and led teams of all sizes, working on projects from consumer verticals to enterprise applications. I have seen what engineering teams can accomplish when empowered to learn and adapt. Code is cheap; the learning and momentum are what matters.

🦀 San Francisco

Senior Engineering Manager

Frontier data engineering

Capital One Financial

Scaling teams and initiatives to set the stage for next generation data products powering LLMs and AI agents

January 2025 - Current

Engineering Manager

Needles and haystacks

Capital One Financial

Tackling fresh big data initiatives in the financial sector to help make better decisions at scale

November 2022 - Current

Engineering Manager

Leading an industry defining SaaS product

Alliance Laundry Systems

Managing the engineering team behind the laundry industry's leading software products

Jan 2018 - Current

Tech Lead

Scale from day one

Alliance Laundry Systems

Acqui-hired to build a software division for a billion-dollar manufacturing company from the ground up

May 2017 - Jan 2018

Senior Software Engineer

Shinining a light into a blackbox

Naritiv

Developed the first external analytics software product for Snapchat

Mar 2016 - Apr 2017

Uber for laundry

Washio

Tasked implementing consumer applications and internal management systems for a real-time delivery system

Jan 2014 - Mar 2016

Software Engineer

Fun and games

Laffster

Designed and developed a live streaming video site for comedians and their super fans

Sep 2012 - Dec 2013

Founder

Plug and play

Spire.io

An early entrant in the platform-as-a-service space providing developers solutions for auth and more. An idea bit too early for its time

Jan 2012 - Oct 2012

Through the looking glass

Glass

A social network that created a private 'layer' on top of the existing internet for your social graph

Feb 2008 - Jan 2012

My current weekend stack

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    Technology
    React Native/Expo
    Blurb
    Rediscovering the joy of rapid app development (and expo router is a joy to use)
  2. [object Object]
    Technology
    Supabase
    Blurb
    Quick DB with built in authentication and Postgres support
  3. [object Object]
    Technology
    Hugging Face/Llama
    Blurb
    Hosting the newest frontier models for hobby work and research
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    Technology
    Vision Pro/Swift
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    Spatial computing is the future of interaction and my favorite way to conduct deep work
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    Technology
    Next.JS
    Blurb
    Next.JS has blurred the line further between front-end and back-end systems. A wonderful DX combined with a lightly opinionated structure to help craft scalable, beautiful apps.