Mihai Parparita
Founding Engineer at Sierra
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMihai Parparita is a founding engineer and seasoned software veteran with 28 years of experience building high-performance client and backend systems for companies from Google to Slack and Tailscale. He’s shipped cross‑platform editing surfaces, offline-capable desktop apps, and a string of infrastructure and product features—from the original Google Reader UI to Tailscale’s browser/WebAssembly port and SSH console. Comfortable across frontend, backend and systems work, he’s led migrations to TypeScript, instrumented production data pipelines, and spelunked kernels to surface useful system calls. An early employee builder at Sierra, Mihai blends product instincts with deep engineering craft and an appetite for practical automation—evident in his open-source contributions to projects like NewsBlur, Quip API tooling, and developer utilities such as a dex method counter.
27 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Princeton University
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Github Skills (52)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mihaip/infinite-mac
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 280 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Mihai primarily contributed to the front-end and UI aspects of the project, evidenced by modifications to JavaScript and TypeScript files, as well as changes to the CSS and HTML to modify the screen bezel and implement full-screen functionality. They were responsible for refactoring the UI thread code to improve type safety and object orientation. The user also implemented features like touch event support, and drag-and-drop functionality for file uploads, which involved significant changes to both the UI and the underlying service worker.
everythingdmgbrowserwebassemblymac
mihaip/dex-method-counts
May 2014 - May 2016
Command-line tool to count per-package methods in Android .dex files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 16 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mihai primarily contributed to the development of a command-line tool designed to count methods within Android `.dex` files. Their work involved adding features such as the ability to include classes, filter method counts by package, and limit the output depth. The user also added the option to filter between defined and referenced methods. This involved modifying existing code, adding new features, and restructuring of the program's functionality, demonstrating a solid understanding of the project's core objective.
command-line-toolcount-toandroiddexcli
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