Michael Parkins
Open Source Developer Advocate
Chardon, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Parkins is an Open Source Developer Advocate with a decade of software engineering experience built entirely within Progressive Insurance, where he progressed from application developer to architect and now champions open source adoption. He combines hands-on Node.js and Angular development with systems and API architecture expertise, helping bridge engineering teams and platform strategy. Known for translating complex insurance domain needs into pragmatic technical solutions, he has led architecture and solution teams through multiple promotions and roles since 2006. Based in Chardon, Ohio, he pairs leadership and mentorship with a practical bias for building reusable components and APIs. His background in biology hints at a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving that informs his technical stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biology, General, BS, Biology, General at Kent State University
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Github Skills (3)
angular-app10
analytics9
angular9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
michael-parkins/personal-site-ngx
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Personal site built using Angular.
Contributions:7 reviews, 97 commits, 7 PRs in 11 months
angularwork-in-progress
Progressive-Insurance/oculr-ngx
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
DEPRECATED: An analytics library that makes collecting data in an Angular app simple.
Contributions:5 releases, 7 reviews, 107 commits in 11 months
angular-appangularanalytics
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