Michael Parker
Software Engineer at Square
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Parker is a principal software engineer and tech lead in San Francisco with 14 years building backend systems for payments and consumer products. Currently at Square, he leads payouts engineering to move large-scale money flows reliably, drawing on prior backend and mobile roles at Airbnb, Khan Academy, Burner, and Google. He combines deep systems experience from search quality and document infrastructure at Google with startup instincts from co-founding ReadyUp!, enabling pragmatic architectural decisions under product constraints. A UCLA BS/MS graduate, he balances hands-on coding and team leadership, mentoring engineers while shipping production services. Notably, his career spans both high-scale platform work and product-facing mobile engineering, giving him a rare cross-cutting perspective on reliability, latency, and user experience.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS (with honors), Computer Science and Engineering, BS (with honors), Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (110)
table-of-contents10
graalvm10
twilio-api10
in-memory-database10
bigtable10
http-client10
nosql10
leveldb10
data-model10
bitmaps10
database10
fst10
jvm10
in-memory10
geohash10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mgp/dotfiles
Jan 2012 - Jan 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes in 10 years 1 month
mgp/book-notes
Apr 2012 - Apr 2021
Notes from books and other interesting things that I've read. Table of contents at the end 👇
Contributions:452 commits, 11 PRs, 335 pushes in 9 years 1 month
notesinterestingtable-of-contentsreading-notesbook-notes
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