Matthew Pryor
Principal Engineer at Cigna
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Pryor is a Principal Engineer based in Boulder with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale container platforms and developer tooling. He specializes in cloud-native infrastructure, migrations, and observability—having architected tools and processes to migrate 3,000+ microservices and save tens of thousands of calendar hours. Comfortable across Golang, Python, Java/Spring, React/TypeScript and Kubernetes, he blends deep technical breadth (networking, debugging, capacity planning) with clear communication to align engineering, ops, and business stakeholders. Matthew excels as an individual contributor who surfaces hidden operational waste, automates repeatable work, and makes complex systems understandable to non-technical audiences. An active problem solver, he has repeatedly turned platform challenges into self-service tools that improve reliability and developer productivity at enterprise scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Art, Computer Science, Bachelor of Art, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Github Skills (23)
textual10
unix-command9
cli9
shell8
command-line8
parsing8
linux8
spreadsheet8
json8
tui8
unix8
cli-app7
csv-parser7
python7
csv7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mpryor/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
mpryor/vimconfig
Dec 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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