Michael Parsons
Co-Founder at Twisp
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Parsons is a fintech entrepreneur and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building banking infrastructure and developer-facing financial primitives. As Co-Founder and CTO at Twisp after leading Banking efforts at Simple and BBVA, he specializes in serverless architectures, Go, and cloud-native systems that power payments and account rails. He has a track record of moving complex migrations and integrations— from bringing card processing in-house at Simple to launching BBVA’s Open Platform—while keeping product and operational costs in check. Michael is an active open-source contributor to AWS Labs’ goformation project, improving CloudFormation handling and serverless resource support. Based in Bend, Oregon, he pairs hands-on backend engineering with product sensibility from his early work pioneering mobile food delivery at Seamless. Always curious, he often bridges startup speed with enterprise-grade reliability to help fintechs ship production-ready products.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Iowa State University
Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (8)
golang10
parserator10
aws-cloudformation10
parser10
go10
aws10
json8
yaml7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/goformation
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
GoFormation is a Go library for working with CloudFormation templates.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `goformation` library, which is a Go library for working with CloudFormation templates. Their work included refactoring code by removing superfluous parts and merging code changes. They also updated the library to handle specific event sources, such as SNS events, and made changes to how the template structure is handled. Furthermore, the user updated internal data structures related to CloudFormation resources, specifically focusing on AWS::Serverless resources.
golangaws-cloudformationgo-libraryaws-samcloudformation-templates
parsnips/sniper
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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