Shawn “Wookiee” Parker

Tech Lead / Staff Engineer with more than 20 years of experience

Castle Pines, CO
80108, USA

https://top-frog.com

I'm a full-stack software engineer experienced in building scalable web applications and leading cross-functional teams. I thrive in both individual and team settings, delivering solutions that combine technical excellence with user-centric design. My expertise spans distributed systems, modern JavaScript frameworks, and back-end development.

Stuff I’m Doing

QuizStreak, Castle Pines, COQuizStreak

Lead Developer / Co-owner

Oct 2023 – present

  • Build an engaging online trivia game using Svelte, Supabase, and custom CSS, minimizing node modules to create a lightweight application that works well on both desktop and mobile devices.
  • Generate in-depth statistics suitable for user rankings, comparisons, and automated league categorization.
  • Conduct user behavior analysis and customer interviews to identify feature opportunities and improve engagement.
Culture Foundry, Seattle, WA(Remote)

Software Engineer, Contractor

Mar 2024 – present

  • Develop custom WordPress sites using Bootstrap and Tailwind, enhancing functionality through custom code and with plugins like Advanced Custom Fields.
  • Collaborate with clients to break down requirements and plan development work, focusing on mobile responsiveness and accessibility.
  • Automate workflows for CI/CD pipelines across WPEngine and customer hosted environments.

Stuff I’ve Done

RevOpos, Inc, Berkeley, CA(Remote)

Lead Software Engineer

Apr 2022 – Mar 2023

  • Led a team focused on customer and product growth to implement new features in Python and React/TypeScript, working closely with Product, Sales, and Support teams to meet customer and product needs.
  • Enabled customers to create complex dynamic pricing models based on custom properties attached to product SKUs.
  • Supervised remote contractors in finalizing an internal Design System, ensuring consistent code quality and design patterns.
  • Improved application performance by reducing build size through browser analysis and package optimization.
Twilio, San Francisco, CA

Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead, Growth Engineering

Jul 2019 – Jan 2022

  • Developed scalable, fault-tolerant systems that supported multiple teams in onboarding new members and accelerating product adoption through innovative application designs and effective cross-team collaboration.
  • Mentored engineers on project and task management, engineering best practices, problem-solving, and code quality.
  • Oversaw remote contractors and streamlined team productivity by clarifying expectations and task definitions.

Senior Software Engineer 1 & 2

Jun 2011 – Jul 2019

  • Contributed to various teams, including Growth Engineering, Experimentation Platform, Phone Numbers, and Console.
  • Enabled teams to make run-time decisions about their customers based on live data and computed metrics through a custom built customer data platform integrated in to the experimentation platform.
  • Enabled company compliance with international phone number regulations though a patented workflow system to provision phone numbers in compliance with worldwide, country specific rules.
  • Enabled individual teams to support their own development lifecycles, decrease contention over core sections of the codebase, and to adopt and grow their back-end services per their own needs by deconstructing a monolithic PHP code base.
  • Drove a culture of testing as a normal part of the development lifecycle Increased adoption of technologies and tooling to improve system observability and drive down recovery time from errors.

Patents

  • U.S. Patent 11,153,390 B2 - Multi-Jurisdictional Endpoint Allocation Compliance

    A system for evaluating and verifying jurisdictional eligibility to allocate resources based on identification data and regulatory rule sets.

Crowd Favorite, Denver, CO

Senior Developer

May 2008 – Jun 2011

  • Developed custom solutions for building on and extending WordPress as a publishing platform.
  • Developed project requirements and plans for projects ranging from plugin development to API integrations to large-scale deployments
  • Developed systems built on top of CodeIgniter that take advantage of Amazon cloud services to scale to meet the demands of high-volume, time-sensitive data processing.

Where I Learned

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts, Dec 1996
    University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado

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