Summary
Jeff Parr is a principal engineer and consultant with 11 years of focused software engineering and web development experience and a broader two-decade background helping clients from Fortune 100 firms to local small businesses. He combines hands-on full-stack development (notably Ruby on Rails) with product strategy, project leadership, and client-facing roles, at times moving seamlessly between coding features and shaping business strategy. As founder of Ephemeral Systems he built Incident Pony™, showing a practical knack for security automation and cross-account AWS incident orchestration. His entrepreneurial history includes running an e-commerce storefront and leading blue-sky product consulting, giving him rare depth in marketing, operations, and customer engagement alongside technical delivery. Based in Ashland, Oregon, Jeff is known for clear communication, relentless problem-solving, and a curiosity that drives both technical innovation and practical business results.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Western Washington University
BS, BS at Michigan State University