Elliot Pryde
@elliotpryde
Senior software engineer delivering full-stack features and platform reliability at scale.
United KingdomWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Senior Software Engineer with nearly 10 years across full-stack development and platform engineering, consistently delivering customer-facing features end-to-end—from React/TypeScript frontends to distributed backend systems and cloud infrastructure.
At Smartsheet, I led high-impact frontend delivery of Dynamic Dropdowns from hackathon proof-of-concept to production in 6 months, reaching 297–485% MoM growth and zero P1/P2 incidents. I defined and drove architecture across services, managed distributed transaction failure risks (0.07% failure rate), and scaled infrastructure operations supporting millions of daily data syncs.
I also strengthen reliability and delivery systems through observability and automation—owning Envoy edge proxy and centralized logging, improving CI/CD release frequency by 400%, and managing SLOs/monitors as code with Terraform/Terragrunt. Previously, as a Site Reliability Engineer, I supported 190,000+ daily bookings across 60 countries, reduced build times/costs, and applied safer Infrastructure as Code practices with OPA and OctoDNS, and I’ve built end-to-end capabilities at Airpoint including Azure infrastructure modernization and security/compliance-heavy integrations.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led high-level technical design and frontend delivery of Smartsheet Dynamic Dropdowns from hackathon PoC to production in 6 months, driving 297–485% month-over-month growth and 6,300 MAU with zero P1/P2 incidents. Owned platform and SRE-adjacent reliability work across Kubernetes and serverless processing (3.18M daily sync operations), observability, and CI/CD improvements including 400% faster de
Site Reliability Engineer
ResDiary Ltd.
Aug 2019 - Mar 2022 (2 years 7 months)
Maintained reliability for a restaurant reservation SaaS handling 190,000+ daily bookings across 60 countries, including on-call support for Azure AKS and VM environments. Reduced CI build times by 40% and costs by 50%, implemented OPA-based Terraform change controls and OctoDNS IaC CD for DNS, and resolved a Redis cold-cache thundering herd via load shedding plus Redis persistence and request coa
Full Stack Developer / DevOps Lead
Airpoint Ltd.
Jun 2016 - Aug 2019 (3 years 2 months)
Designed Azure infrastructure to replace legacy colocation/customer-hosted systems, reducing operational burden and improving reliability. Built biometric access control features (including fingerprint scanning across hardware and application layers), delivered end-to-end testing with BDD, and implemented secure integrations with UK police databases (PNC and Niche RMS) under strict compliance requ
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Glasgow Caledonian University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Games (Software Development)
2013 - 2016
Completed a BSc in Computer Games (Software Development) at Glasgow Caledonian University from 2013 to 2016.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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