I build fast, careful software.
I'm Tony Prokop, a software engineer in Omaha, Nebraska. I work across the stack - product UI, APIs and the infrastructure underneath - and I care most about the parts people feel: speed, reliability and polish.
1export const me = {
2 name: "Tony Prokop",
3 role: "Sr. Staff Software Engineer",
4 based: "Omaha, NE",
5 focus: ["product", "performance", "DX"],
6 shipping: "[Current project]",
7 openTo: ["full-time", "contract"],
8}01 / about
Engineer by trade, generalist by habit
I've spent 10 years building for the web, from eCommerce checkout funnels to a customer-facing API platform, mostly on the frontend and in the places where the product meets the systems behind it. I care about interfaces that are fast, accessible and intuitive.
- based in
- Omaha, NE · Central Time
- currently
- Senior Software Engineer at WP Engine
02 / selected work
Things I've shipped recently
Two recent favourites. Every project has a write-up of what I built, what broke and what I'd do differently.
[Project one]
01A local-first sync engine. Edits apply instantly and reconcile in the background; cut perceived latency from 900 ms to under 50.
[Project two]
02Event-sourced billing pipeline that replays a week of history in seconds. Open source, used by [N] teams.
03 / uses
What's on my desk
The languages, tools and apps I reach for every day.
04 / experience
Where I've worked
Senior Software Engineer · WP Engine
Core architecture for the next generation of the customer-facing API, and the frontend platform on top of it.
Senior Software Engineer · Flywheel
Primary frontend engineer on Growth Suite, Flywheel's flagship product.
Web Developer · Speedway Motors
Built and maintained the Speedway Motors eCommerce site.
05 / kind words
What people I've worked with say
“Tony Prokop is the engineer you hand the scary project to. They turned a rewrite everyone was afraid of into a series of small, boring, safe releases.”
“Rare mix of product sense and systems depth. Their design docs became the template the whole org now uses.”
“The best mentor I've had. Patient in code review, fast in an incident and always the first to write the postmortem.”
06 / contact
Let's build something.
Hiring, a contract or just a question - I read everything and usually reply within two days.