Josh Parolin
CTO & Co-Founder at Sessionboard
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Parolin is a seasoned product and technology leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling B2B SaaS from day zero through multiple acquisitions. As CTO and Co‑Founder of Sessionboard he combines product-first engineering with a focus on event and speaker management platforms, drawing on prior exits including Lennd and Fondi and a role in Classy’s integration into GoFundMe. He excels at turning domain-specific problems into robust SaaS products and building disciplined, high-performing teams that deliver customer value relentlessly. His background spans hands-on engineering, growth-stage product leadership, and founding ventures that bridge events, fundraising, and nonprofit needs. Based in Nashville, he brings a practical mix of startup grit and enterprise integration experience that few product CTOs in the events space possess. Notably, his track record includes repeatedly taking event-tech products from MVP to acquisition, demonstrating both technical depth and commercial acumen.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Park Hill South High SchoolUndergraduate, Computer Science, Undergraduate, Computer Science at San Diego State UniversityUniversity of Missouri
Italian, French
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Github Skills (72)
datagrid10
react-component10
react10
react-components8
command-line-tool8
material-ui8
ios8
android8
nodejs8
javascript7
code-editor7
html7
react-native7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lennd/front-end-engineer-exercise
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
lenndapp/puppeteer-heroku-buildpack
Jan 2020 - Oct 2024
Installs dependencies needed in order to run puppeteer on heroku.
Contributions:10 pushes in 4 years 9 months
herokupuppeteerdependenciesin-order
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