Summary
Andy Pryor is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and scaling large cloud-native systems, currently serving as Vice President of Competitive and Platform Engineering at Hudl. He leads ~100 engineers across product and platform teams, having driven Infrastructure as Code adoption with Terraform Cloud, a 100+ PB video pipeline, and cost-saving cloud optimizations that cut hosting COGS and video processing costs substantially. Andy combines deep hands-on architecture work—multi-region encoding, spot-instance optimization, and microservice platform design—with strong operational discipline, introducing tools like CloudZero and OpsLevel to improve FinOps and service maturity. He has a track record of zero-to-one product launches and acquisition integrations, notably onboarding BlueFrame and launching Hudl Fan, while enabling developer productivity through shared platforms for web, mobile, video, and design. Based in Omaha, he is always hiring and focused on aligning engineering strategy with measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Northwest Missouri State University