Summary
Michael Pryor is an engineering manager with 13 years' experience building scalable infrastructure and ML-ready data platforms, currently leading Data Platform at Wayve from London. He has a strong track record designing cloud-native, secure platforms and CI/CD at Privitar—leading a 12+ engineer team to deliver a greenfield AWS offering and organisation-wide cloud security. Earlier roles at Barclays sharpened his skills in low-latency systems, performance engineering and distributed architectures across Java, C++ and Python. He combines hands-on technical depth (Spark, Kubernetes, Bazel, TeamCity, Helm) with pragmatic leadership that turns complex enterprise requirements into modular, auditable systems. Notably, he has built privacy-preserving, large-scale data processing components used in healthcare contexts and led multi-language monorepo pipelines that reduced operational friction for large engineering orgs.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, First-class Honours (78%), BSc, Computer Science, First-class Honours (78%) at The University of Birmingham
Watford Grammar School for Boys