Summary
Parker Emerson is a Lead Software Engineer in Portland with 11 years of experience building full-stack .NET systems for a multi-billion dollar commodities trading firm. He progressed from product manager and developer roles to lead engineering, overseeing in-house ERP and wholesale market portal development for North American lumber operations and integrating legacy VB and i-Series systems with modern stacks. Parker combines technical depth in ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, SQL Server and Azure DevOps with hands-on domain knowledge of commodities logistics, risk management and stakeholder-driven product delivery. His background is atypical for an engineering leader—dual legal training (J.D., cum laude) and a Master’s in Computer Science—giving him a strong grasp of compliance, contracts and complex business requirements. Colleagues rely on him to translate regulatory and commercial constraints into auditable, production-ready software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor, cum laude, Certificate of Business Law, Juris Doctor, cum laude, Certificate of Business Law at Lewis & Clark Law School
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Portland State University
Bachelor of the Arts, English Literature, Bachelor of the Arts, English Literature at Reed College
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Doctor of Law (J.D.) at University of Richmond School of Law
Spanish