Nick Parsons
VP Of Marketing at Clerk.com
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNick Parsons is an engineer-turned-marketer with 13 years of experience building developer-first, product-led growth at early-stage startups and scaleups. Currently VP of Marketing at Clerk after rising from Director, he specializes in assembling lean, high-velocity teams that challenge conventional GTM playbooks—often by deliberately studying competitors to do the opposite. Nick blends hands-on front-end chops (contributions to projects like NextAuth and Stream’s React examples) with deep developer relations experience from roles at Stream, MongoDB, and founder-led startups. He has led developer marketing through rapid company growth, owned SDKs, docs, and DX, and executed creative campaigns, partnerships, and open-source initiatives that drove adoption. Based in Boulder, he pairs product instincts and engineering empathy to turn technical complexity into clear developer experiences. An operator at heart, he’s comfortable shipping code, content, and strategy.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Worthington High SchoolFinance, Accounting and Finance, Finance, Accounting and Finance at The Ohio State University
English
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
css10
nextjs10
amazon-web-services10
amazon-ec210
html10
nginx10
react10
user-interface9
webpages9
ui-design9
interface-design9
documentation9
auth9
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
GetStream/stream-react-example
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
Use React and Redux to build your own feature-rich and scalable social network app! Visit cabin.getstream.io for an overview of all 8 tutorials and a live demo.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 8 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on front-end development, making significant contributions to the user interface of the React application. They added and modified HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to improve the UI/UX, including adding links, updating copy, and fixing CSS issues. The user also implemented SEO improvements by adding meta tags and updating blog post links. Furthermore, the user worked on demo page updates, enhancing its styling and structure.
social-networklive-demoreactscalablegetstream-io
nextauthjs/next-auth
Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
Authentication for the Web.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick focused on enhancing the documentation website for NextAuth.js. Their contributions included updating clerk sponsorship callouts and links, fixing dark mode styling for the clerk sponsorship CTA, adding analytics tracking with Clerk's Twitter pixel, and adjusting the z-index of the Clerk homepage sponsorship. These changes primarily involved modifications to the documentation's UI and integration of third-party services like Clerk.
solidjsnuxtnextauthaccess-tokenspid
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