Summary
M Parrish is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building backend systems across startups and large platforms, currently contributing to Spotify's engineering efforts. A University of Maryland computer science graduate, he progressed from internships and associate roles to senior backend positions at Anchor and Spotify, demonstrating steady growth in production-grade services. He excels at backend engineering and system reliability, bringing startup agility from earlier roles at Jibe and 2U to scale-oriented work at Spotify. Comfortable navigating both small-team feature delivery and large-codebase maintenance, he combines pragmatic engineering with a long-term focus on platform health. Though rooted in backend systems, his background in AV/IT and hands-on early roles hint at a practical, user-focused approach to solving infrastructure and operational challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Maryland