Matthew Parrott
Senior Manager Compiler Team at The Art Students League of New York
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Parrott is a senior software leader and architect with 11 years of professional experience and a deep pedigree in film, automotive, and quantum computing systems. He has repeatedly delivered large-scale, production-grade pipelines—saving tens of thousands of developer hours with distributed testing, shipping 50,000 files a day for global productions, and orchestrating thousands of process handoffs per minute across render farms. At IonQ he now leads the quantum compiler team after hands-on roles building tools and platforms at PsiQuantum and architecting enterprise systems at Rivian, Tesla, Pixar, and Lucasfilm. Combining an MFA in Visual Effects with a CS degree, he uniquely bridges art and engineering, often rolling up his sleeves to solve creative problems directly. Known for decisive, diplomatic leadership and a taste for teaching, he mentors teams on code quality, tooling, and scalable distributed architectures. An artist as well as an engineer, he still produces work at the Art Students League of New York, feeding creative insight back into his technical designs.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Visual Effects, MFA, Master's Degree, Visual Effects, MFA at Savannah College of Art and DesignBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (58)
redis10
async10
rq10
task-queue10
job-queue10
diagramming9
visualization9
graph-layout9
python9
html8
svg8
task-manager8
typescript8
css8
chrome8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
matthewatabet/algorithms
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
matthewatabet/intro_python
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
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