Jed Parsons
Embedded Software Engineer at Square
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJed Parsons is an Embedded Software Engineer based in Berkeley with 15 years of experience building resilient point-of-sale and consumer-facing systems at Square and earlier work at Mozilla and Industrial Light & Magic. He blends Android, Kotlin, Java, Rx, BLE, peripheral integrations and occasional native bindings to deliver production-grade embedded and mobile software. At Square he focuses on core POS systems, bringing deep platform knowledge and a pragmatic approach to hardware-software interaction. His open-source contributions include UI testing and identity/authentication work on Mozilla’s notable Gaia project, reflecting attention to user flows and robust test coverage. Unusually for a senior engineer, he pairs decades of industrial engineering experience with formal study in Latin and the classics, suggesting a disciplined, detail-oriented mindset.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Latin, PhD, Latin at University of California, BerkeleyBA, Greek, Latin, BA, Greek, Latin at Harvard UniversityBuckingham Browne & Nichols School
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Github Skills (9)
uitest10
javascript10
ui-testing10
test-automation10
html9
user-interface8
authentication6
persona6
authorization6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-b2g/gaia
Oct 2012 - Mar 2014
DEPRECATED - Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jed primarily contributed to UI testing within the `gaia` repository, a project focused on building a HTML5-based phone UI. Their work centered on implementing and testing components related to user identity and authentication, as seen through the creation of UI test apps and the addition of features like the `oncancel` handler for identity requests. Furthermore, the user modified existing test frameworks to incorporate the new features. This involved modifying test applications and related HTML files for identity and Firefox Account features.
branchesphonejavascriptgaiahtml5
jedp/kpiggybank
May 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:79 commits in 7 months
kpidata-storeinteractiondata-interaction
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