Summary
Parker Buckley is a Full Stack Engineer based in Dallas with eight years of experience building backend-first systems and expanding into full-stack responsibilities. He has led teams and delivered mission-critical features for startups, including geofenced location verification, automated timesheets, subscription billing, and tax form generation for a labor marketplace. Parker excels at microservices architecture, trade-offs for read/write separation (including a read-only GraphQL service), and operationalizing integrations like CRM data flows and payment rails. His background spans regulated domains—payments, invoicing, and IRS compliance—where reliability and auditability matter as much as feature velocity. Comfortable moving legacy Java into Node.js and strengthening platform practices, he blends hands-on coding with documentation and onboarding to raise team standards. Outside work he pairs a chemical engineering foundation with computer science training, a mix that drives pragmatic problem solving and systems thinking.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering at University of Louisville
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Kentucky
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Western Hills High School