Summary
Philip Pryde is a Senior Product Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and data-driven tooling, currently shaping product engineering at Wayflyer from the Greater Edinburgh area. He brings deep expertise in SQL optimization, backend APIs and web tooling from a long tenure at Skyscanner, where he owned tracking systems, reporting pipelines and investigative deep dives across the stack. Trained in AI and computer science, he started in the Microsoft ecosystem (C#, VB, SSIS) and has transitioned to open-source stacks, combining pragmatic legacy knowledge with a readiness to adopt new languages and frameworks. Comfortable moving from raw data to production code, he excels at surfacing actionable insight from complex datasets and tuning systems for performance and reliability. Colleagues know him as the engineer who enjoys an analytical challenge—give him data and he’ll trace problems to their source and deliver robust, maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Advanced Highers, Advanced Highers at Dalkeith High School