Michael Parsons
Co-Founder at Twisp
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Parsons is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 11 years building fintech and payments infrastructure. As Co-Founder of Twisp, he shapes modern financial services primitives for developers, while also serving as a partner at pnwcode and guiding fintech startups to market from Bend, Oregon. He led Open Platform initiatives at BBVA and steered migrations for Simple, delivering AWS-native, serverless architectures and data-driven fintech products at scale. An active open-source contributor, he helped evolve AWS Labs goformation to support CloudFormation resources and event sources. Earlier in his career, he built real-time APIs and data pipelines at Seamless, LiveAuctioneers, and Webtrends, giving him a broad product-to-platform perspective. He thrives on tough challenges and energetic conversations, turning ambitious ideas into practical, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Iowa State University
Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (9)
golang10
parserator10
aws-cloudformation10
parser10
go10
parsers10
aws10
json8
yaml7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/goformation
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
GoFormation is a Go library for working with CloudFormation templates.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `goformation` library, which is a Go library for working with CloudFormation templates. Their work included refactoring code by removing superfluous parts and merging code changes. They also updated the library to handle specific event sources, such as SNS events, and made changes to how the template structure is handled. Furthermore, the user updated internal data structures related to CloudFormation resources, specifically focusing on AWS::Serverless resources.
golangaws-cloudformationgo-libraryaws-samcloudformation-templates
parsnips/sniper
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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