Louis Parkin
Staff Software Engineer at SUSE
Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLouis Parkin is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building secure, high-performance systems across banking, electronic warfare, embedded signal processing and observability. Currently focused on Kubernetes observability at SUSE, he has led security and compliance efforts at StackState while continuing hands-on engineering. His background spans C++/Qt real‑time systems, ARM-Neon DSP optimizations, and cross-platform mobile development, giving him a rare blend of low-level performance tuning and cloud-native security expertise. Louis thrives on complex, multidisciplinary challenges and is known for adaptability, mentoring teams, and turning proof‑of‑concept algorithms into production code. Based in the Netherlands, he maintains active curiosity in distributed processing and app security outside work, often exploring performance-driven solutions that bridge embedded and cloud domains.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Information Technology, Honours Information Technology at North-West University / Noordwes-UniversiteitHigh School General Studies, High School General Studies at Ferdinand Postma Highschool
English, Afrikaans, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
firebase10
invoice-ninja10
dart9
windows9
dockerfile9
android9
google9
flutter9
docker-compose8
youtube8
opentelemetry8
jaeger8
opentelemetry-collector8
topology8
desktop8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
StackVista/minio
May 2024 - Jan 2025
The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 months
LouisParkin/coreos-iso-maker
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 month
sequenceisostarting-pointcoreosdeployment
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