Joel Parsons
Software Engineering Manager at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Parsons is a Software Engineering Manager based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience designing and shipping high‑quality iOS products at scale, currently leading the team that architects the foundation of Apple Media Apps. He combines hands‑on engineering and product instincts—having founded and sold consumer apps and regularly delivering App Store updates—with a strong emphasis on analytics-driven feature development to boost user engagement. An active member of the iOS community, he speaks at conferences, contributes to open source, and co‑organises the NSLondon meetup, bringing both technical mentorship and developer advocacy to his teams. Comfortable liaising directly with clients and stakeholders, he has repeatedly taken small, lean products from concept to millions of users while building scalable systems to handle global traffic.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Mathematics, BSc, Mathematics at University of Leicester
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Github Skills (33)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
small-bet/small-bet-moneyhole
Jul 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 2 months
joelparsons/drenickceramics
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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