Adam Parkin
Senior Backend Engineer at Zapier
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Parkin is a pragmatic Backend Engineer with 14 years of experience building and improving production systems, currently driving backend work at Zapier from Victoria, BC. He blends deep Python expertise—from greenfield FastAPI microservices to maintaining million-line legacy codebases—with strong CI/CD and cloud experience (Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Terraform). A committed quality advocate and mentor, Adam regularly champions static analysis, automated testing, and process improvements that measurably boost team effectiveness. He pairs an academic background (MSc in Computer Science) and teaching experience with hands-on migration and cost-optimization projects, showing both technical depth and operational impact. Known jokingly on GitHub as "The Codependent Codr :)", he brings a collaborative, feedback-oriented approach that helps developers grow while delivering reliable systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University of VictoriaDiploma Computer Information Systems, Diploma Computer Information Systems at Douglas College
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
pzelnip/codependentcodrbase
Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
Contributions:123 PRs, 271 pushes, 189 branches in 3 years 11 months
bambora/na-payment-apis-demo
May 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:56 commits, 42 PRs, 90 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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