Martin Pritchard
Director Of Software Engineering at 8x8
Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Pritchard is a Director of Software Engineering with over a decade of hands-on technical leadership and 23 years in the broader engineering domain, currently leading 13 engineers delivering Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes for VOIP at 8x8. He combines a deep performance and JVM background from low-latency trading and market-making systems at Bet365 and Winterflood with pragmatic, business-aligned delivery and hiring experience. Comfortable translating complex technical trade-offs to product and programme stakeholders, he emphasizes simplicity, readability, resiliency, and scalable design. He has a track record of recruiting and growing teams, owning critical production systems, and personally engaging in code and architecture reviews. Based in Stoke-on-Trent, Martin’s aerospace engineering MEng hints at a systems-minded approach that informs his focus on availability and performance in distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Aerospace engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Aerospace engineering at The University of Manchester
English
Github Skills (31)
inbox10
webmail10
angular-material10
google-inbox10
angular9
backend8
gmail-api8
typescript8
vscode8
markdown8
timer7
knowledge-management7
smtp6
development-environment5
cordova5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
msp301/zb
Apr 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:70 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 7 months
msp301/pinbox
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Self-hosted webmail client greatly inspired by Google Inbox
Contributions:203 commits, 20 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 years 9 months
inboxgoogle-inboxmailnotmuchwebmail
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