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Matt Pryor

Principal Engineer @ Cigna

LinkedIn GitHub Boulder, CO

Things I'm building

Incident Simulator Multiplayer incident response game Try it → nless TUI pager for tabular data View on GitHub →

00 About

pod-1 :8443 pod-2 :443 SYN PSH FIN ACK RST ACK dashboard

Full-stack engineer who loves building tools that make other engineers' lives easier. I've spent the last decade deep in container platforms, networking, and infrastructure — automating the tedious, untangling the complex, and turning large-scale problems into straightforward solutions. Happiest as an IC, solving hard problems and shipping things that matter.

  • Migration tooling for thousands of microservices
  • Real-time observability agents
  • Developer portal for managing thousands of microservices on Cloud Foundry
  • Compliance and best-practices engine for large-scale Kubernetes environments with executive-level rollups and trend reporting
  • And much more

01 Skills

Software Development

Go Python React TypeScript Java Bash/Zsh Vim Git

Networking & Infrastructure

Wireshark tcpdump netstat Ansible Terraform

Cloud & Virtualization

Kubernetes Cloud Foundry AWS GCP VMware / vSphere

Currently Learning

Rust eBPF

02 Experience & Awards

Cigna

4+ years

Principal Engineer

April 2021 – Present

  • Responsible for technical and strategic direction for the development of Cigna's internal container platform (100,000s of containers across 50+ clusters)
  • Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes platforms subject matter expert, providing technical guidance, tooling, and triage for a giant migration project (3000+ microservices)
  • Architected and developed a tool to assist the migration of 3000+ microservices, saving 100,000s of calendar hours
  • Development of various other tools to assist in the same migration effort: dependency mapping, network mapping, capacity planning, waste detection and elimination
🏆 Dragon Award 2025

Team award for the most impactful project across the organization that year.

🏆 PCF Retirement Top Contributor 2024

Awarded to top contributors of a large migration program (1000s of engineers), for building automation tooling that securely migrated connectivity requirements from a legacy system to locked-down Kubernetes egress rules.

🏆 Innovator of the Year 2023

Awarded for migration automation and a networking agent that harvested connectivity requirements from the legacy system, feeding a real-time dashboard for incident response and troubleshooting.

Express Scripts

4.5 years

Senior Software Development Engineer

April 2018 – April 2021

  • Responsible for the reliability, self-service tooling, and automation for ExpressScripts' private container platform (30,000+ containers / 3000 microservices)
  • Automated the redesign of our private cloud's network stack with a GitOps approach to manage virtual network infrastructure
  • Built observability and troubleshooting tooling including a network agent that collects, graphs, and monitors real-time network statistics for every container (30,000+)
  • Implemented a noisy neighbor alerting mechanism that detects anomalous activity and alerts the appropriate application owners
🏆 Process Hack of the Year 2019

Awarded for a cross-team self-service automation of Splunk onboarding — a one-click button that harvested log examples, data requirements, and growth trends to feed into the Splunk team's onboarding system.

Cloud Engineer

November 2016 – April 2018

  • Architected and implemented Express Scripts' internal cloud portal — a single pane of glass allowing developers to visualize and interact with 3000+ microservices hosted on the platform

CenturyLink

1.75 years

Senior Software Developer

April 2016 – November 2016

  • Developed a collaboration portal for internal team communication and KPI reporting using Node.js, Express, MongoDB, AngularJS, and Bootstrap on Cloud Foundry
  • Developed Slack applications for team manager administration via slash commands

Software Developer

March 2015 – April 2016

  • Developed an identity management system to discover and track accounts in third party SaaS products using Java / SpringBoot and NoSQL
  • Built an internal admin portal for onboarding, offboarding, and user lookup
  • Replaced a legacy BPM tool by building a new one on top of Activiti and Java

Advanced Resources

8 months

QA Automation Engineer

August 2014 – March 2015

  • Built end-to-end testing suites, smoke tests, integration tests, and unit tests for a home-grown BPM tool
  • Contributed enhancements to a core testing framework owned by CenturyLink's testing team

03 Education

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Bachelor of Art, Computer Science · 2009 – 2013