John Parsons
Senior Engineering Manager at Braze
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Parsons is a Senior Engineering Manager based in New York with 11 years of experience leading high-throughput data and API systems. At Braze he progressed from Senior Engineer to manager, driving cost reductions of $1M/year, 10x rate-limiter performance improvements, and a 75% drop in high-urgency interruptions through targeted operational and architectural changes. He co-founded and scaled Prompt to >25 employees and millions in revenue, shipping large-scale education platforms and low-code data transformation products adopted by hundreds of customers. John blends hands-on systems engineering—maintaining services at 250k RPS and building dynamic rate limiting—with people leadership, federating ownership to speed delivery and reduce cross-team friction. He’s equally at home writing scalable backend systems as he is building battlebots, reflecting a practical tinkerer’s curiosity alongside strong product and operational instincts.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDiploma High School, Diploma High School at Oyster River High School
Github Skills (8)
braze9
user-feedback8
appboy7
fact-checking6
documentation5
mhealth5
javascript5
open-source4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Sunshine-Songs/Sunshine-Songs
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Sunshine Songs public landing page.
Contributions:23 pushes in 3 months
sunshinesongs
parsonsj/ComboStars
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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