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

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

  1. [object Object]
    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.
  2. [object Object]
    Technology
    TypeScript
    Blurb
    TypeScript has brought order to the chaotic lands of Mordor.
  3. [object Object]
    Technology
    Firebase
    Blurb
    Never roll your own auth. And you can't beat free. Perfect for MVPs and ideation.
  4. [object Object]
    Technology
    Postgres
    Blurb
    While I love NoSQL databases for rapid iterations, I like my baked backends to be more traditional. Postgres and Prisma are my go-to.
  5. [object Object]
    Technology
    Tailwind
    Blurb
    Once the shock wears off on the James Joyce- esque stream of class names, you are left with a relatively modular and team-friendly solution for making things beautiful.