Greg Parsons Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, California, Us

After 10+ years in software, I took a purposeful break after a position elimination in my last role. I took this time to recharge. I am now open to new opportunities. Please reach out if you have a fit!

Santa Monica, California, Us

Led software engineering from Seed through Series B. Built the team from 5->30+, established performance management frameworks for development and management, led department town halls, technical strategy, and roadmap discussions, and sat on the executive team:* Spearheaded engineering day-to-day operations and strategy across platforms while partnering with Product and Program teams to implement iterative improvements, increasing efficiency by 50-75%.* Championed development across a diverse tech stack: analytics platforms, mobile apps, brand websites, internal tools, and infrastructure serving 80M+ MAU and 1800+ active merchants and internal teams.* Created a robust compliance framework, integrating Drata for automation, and crafted strategic playbooks enabling sales and go-to-market teams to navigate compliance in deals up to $500K in annual revenue.

Santa Monica, California, Us

At Tapcart, I expanded the engineering team from 5 to over 30, emphasizing compassionate and collaborative leadership. I played a crucial role in securing over $50 million in Series A and B funding rounds.Within Engineering I implemented Continuous Delivery practices that increased product delivery speed by 50% and led the development of key products, including analytics platforms, push automation, content platforms, and strategic integrations, which broadened the product range and performance. Initially, I managed 15 individual contributors and later supervised managers of teams covering mobile, backend, web, and quality assurance.I established dual career paths and growth frameworks for team building to promote accountability and professional development while focusing on team performance, accountability, and outcomes.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Deployed staging environments, introduced Continuous Delivery for software products, and led the development of our brand website and content management system. Collaborated with a tight group of product and engineering leaders to build a mobile analytics platform for merchants using GCP (PubSub, Cloud Run, Beam, BigQuery, BigTable).

Los Angeles, California, Us

Collaborated cross-functionally with Design, Creative, and Engineering to develop software platforms for brands such as Volkswagen, TacoBell, and Esurance. Mentored software developers, planned projects, and collaborated with clients.Notable projects include:* Volkswagen Next Generation Architecture, where we migrated their web platform to AWS, updated their deployment tools and modernized the project planning and delivery process.* Siemens Mindsphere, where we built a model city that could be tracked via IoT devices and broadcast their data and video directly onto the homepage of their website.* VW Dealers and VW Inventory, where we revamped the brands dealer portals and vehicle inventory systems from the ground up.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Lead engineer building products and services for clients such as Volkswagen, Taco Bell, and Esurance.Established consistency and reliability when starting new projects by iterating on shared development, infrastructure, and security practices.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Found strong mentors at the company and expanded my knowledge, autonomy, and agency in our work. I focused on backend development, frontend architecture, and software deployment.Notable projects during this time were Taco Bell ordering via Slack, ta.co (Taco Bell's new website), and Esurance Fuelcaster.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Solidified my development practice by expanding to more full-stack projects for clients. Areas of focus include site tracking with Omniture, BrightTag using jQuery / Javascript, deployments of code to staging and production environments, learning Javascript/HTML/CSS, and web hosting.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Began my development career as a quality assurance tester focusing on cross-browser testing of web applications and services. I quickly learned that development was my passion. Found a natural progression into a developer role by learning Selenium Test Engineering and deploying tools for our internal website to lighten the QA load.