Daniel Pritchett
Principal Platform Engineeer
Gulf Breeze, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Pritchett is a Principal Platform Engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently leading platform efforts at Radius Method. He combines deep Ruby roots (author of Build Chatbot Interactions) with production-grade skills in Go, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS to deliver reliable, secure deployments including air-gapped DoD environments. Daniel has led platform and observability initiatives at Rebellion Defense and CrowdStrike, designing centralized logging/SIEM, shared Kubernetes hosting, and high-throughput event processing. He mentors at VetsWhoCode, contributes to the Spree e-commerce project, and has a track record of translating research into production—everything from ML data pipelines to chaos-engineering platform strategies. Based in Gulf Breeze, Florida, he mixes hands-on coding with cross-team leadership and a knack for low-friction ChatOps that brings ops to developers.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Diploma, Honors Diploma at Alabama School of Mathematics and ScienceMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at The University of Alabama
Github Skills (15)
spreed10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
spree10
api10
backend10
apidoc10
api-design10
ruby-on-rails10
commerce10
ecommerce10
ruby10
sql8
git5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
spree/spree
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Open Source eCommerce Platform for B2B, Marketplace, and Enterprise. REST API, TypeScript SDK, and production-ready Next.js storefront. Self-host it. Own your stack. No vendor lock-in. Zero platform fees.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the Spree e-commerce platform's back-end functionality, specifically focusing on refactoring taxon-related code. They replaced `:position` references with `:child_index` to better leverage `awesome_nested_set` for taxon ordering. The user also addressed bugs by modifying tracking URL generation to handle spaces in tracking numbers and by defaulting variant weight to zero. Further contributions involved improving the API's variant show view to include stock levels.
ecommercenextjsrestrest-apitypescript
memtech/elvis
Jun 2014 - Mar 2016
Elvis lived in #memtech on irc.freenode.net.
Contributions:310 commits, 8 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 9 months
freenodesaslc-sharpelvisirc
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