Ken Pratt
Software Engineer at Stripe
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKen Pratt is a versatile software engineer with 18 years of experience building scalable web applications, services, and distributed systems, currently contributing at Stripe from Vancouver. He blends deep back-end expertise in Ruby, Java, Node.js and Erlang with hands-on server deployment (Linux, AWS) and front-end design, having shipped projects from EA SPORTS World to indie games. As co-founder of Burger Function Games he launched Atomic Brawl and has prior game credits on FIFA 08 and UEFA EURO 2008, reflecting an uncommon mix of AAA and indie game engineering. He’s led architecture and ops for multi-server production clusters, created a custom in-memory time-traveling database at Ruboss, and contributed important fixes and modernization to the popular connect-mongo session store. Pragmatic and product-focused, Ken pairs entrepreneurial experience with a track record of delivering robust, production-grade systems.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at University of British ColumbiaMDM (incomplete), Digital Media, MDM (incomplete), Digital Media at Great Northern Way Campus
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Github Skills (7)
javascript10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
expressjs9
testing8
database-management7
nodejs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jdesboeufs/connect-mongo
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
MongoDB session store for Express
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ken contributed to the `connect-mongo` repository, a MongoDB session store for Express. Their commits focused on implementing and improving the interaction with MongoDB, adding support for write concerns, fixing test-related issues, and merging updates. They also updated the codebase to use newer MongoDB driver versions. These changes indicate their work involved modifying the backend and integrating features related to data storage.
mongodbsession-store
kenpratt/jvm-assembler
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Generate Java Virtual Machine .class files from Rust.
Contributions:27 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
javarustvirtual-machine
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