AJ Pryor, Ph.D.
Software Engineer at ConductorAI
Milledgeville, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolAJ Pryor, Ph.D. is a software engineer and entrepreneurial tech executive with a decade of experience building cloud-native data platforms, machine learning products, and high-performing engineering organizations. He has led teams from startup to scale—running CTO-level technology for a SaaS spinout, modernizing enterprise analytics at a $5B logistics firm, and delivering product-focused data engineering at Vimeo—while maintaining hands-on expertise in HPC, optimization, and full‑stack development. Known for translating advanced mathematics and constrained-optimization techniques into production decisioning systems, he has driven outcomes like nationwide inventory rebalancing and SKU-level demand forecasting. He balances process rigor with pragmatic agility, establishing OKR-driven planning, SOC2-ready practices, and automated DevOps to reduce costs and accelerate delivery. Based in Milledgeville, GA, he contributes to open-source, mentors growing teams, and brings an unusual mix of Ph.D.-level research experience and commercial product execution—plus hobbies that span Formula One, music, and language learning.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (113)
python10
code-generation10
cpp10
flask10
pandas10
devtools10
mex10
data-science10
data-structure10
data-analysis10
simulation10
algorithms10
flask-restx10
flask-api10
angular-schematics10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
genfire-em/GENFIRE-Python
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Python implementation of GENFIRE (GENeralized Fourier Iterative REconstruction) for 3D image reconstruction from arbitrarily oriented 2D projection images
Contributions:205 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
3dimage-reconstructionpython
apryor6/flask_api_example
May 2019 - Jan 2020
A demonstration of best practices for a large Flask API project
Contributions:21 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
flask-api
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