Summary
Dom Parise is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building and rescuing complex systems, currently focused on cost-efficient data platforms, auth/IDP integrations, and Kafka engineering at SunStrong Management. He has deep domain experience in energy management and virtual power plant coordination from his tenure at SunPower, where he drove backend and GraphQL services for energy data and dispatch systems. A former founder and research assistant, Dom blends entrepreneurial grit with academic rigor to architect novel solutions for legacy-interop and real-time data problems. Based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he excels at translating ambiguous, open problems into pragmatic, auditable systems and routinely delivers both incremental fixes and greenfield features that integrate with existing infrastructures.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Michigan
Northview High School
javascript, python