Jessica Parsons
Senior Product Manager, Telemetry Pipeline at honeycomb.io
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJessica Parsons is a seasoned product leader with 11 years of experience shaping developer workflows, integrations, and telemetry pipelines from Netlify to Honeycomb. She blends hands-on front-end and full-stack development with product strategy—contributing to notable open-source projects like Netlify CLI and the Decap CMS docs site—so she understands both engineer and customer pain points. At Netlify she scaled integrations, sped up builds by up to 80%, and led cross-functional programs that cut infrastructure costs and engineering effort dramatically. Known for documentation-driven development and teaching roots, she reliably turns complex technical requirements into clear processes, templates, and automated systems that reduce manual work. Based in California, she pairs a background in education and math with pragmatic engineering instincts to improve developer experience and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA) with honors, Education and Child Study, Bachelor of Arts (BA) with honors, Education and Child Study at Claremont McKenna CollegeMA, Mathematics Education, MA, Mathematics Education at Claremont Graduate University
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
css10
inquirer10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
html10
react10
documentation10
cli10
github9
ui-design9
netlify-cms9
api8
content-management8
develop8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
gdisf/teaching-materials
Aug 2015 - Apr 2019
GDI SF - Web Development and Programming Curriculum
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:91 commits, 46 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily contributed to the teaching materials for web development, focusing on the front-end aspects. They made changes to exercises demonstrating JavaScript and DOM manipulation, specifically improving the flexibility of click event handling and validating image URLs in default model attributes. Additionally, the user updated the YouTube API exercise, including instructions on obtaining API keys and correcting existing instructions. They also fixed and updated various documentation and code examples.
curriculumworkshop-materialsjqueryworkshopcss
netlify/cli
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
Netlify Command Line Interface
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jessica primarily focused on improving the Netlify CLI's user experience and functionality. Their contributions involved refactoring the `link` command, including the ability to search by site name and refining prompts for clarity and consistency. Additionally, the user made minor UI adjustments and updated documentation-related scripts, contributing to the overall usability and maintainability of the CLI.
continuous-testingcommand-line-interfacedependency-managementnetlifycli
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