Parker Moore
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Parker Moore is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 16 years of experience and a decade of production work at GitHub and Google, currently contributing to Android and the Google Play Store. He blends backend reliability and automation expertise with full‑stack contributions to developer tooling and static site ecosystems, notably maintaining and modernizing widely used open-source projects like Jekyll and Homebrew Bundle. At GitHub he worked across Pages, Actions, and infrastructure roles, shipping reliability and compatibility improvements while also leading testing and QA automation for plugins and libraries. Comfortable across Ruby and Go, he’s fixed subtle API and compatibility issues, refactored legacy code, and added i18n and license support to critical libraries. Beyond code, Parker’s background in information science and long-running open-source stewardship signal a focus on developer experience, long-term maintainability, and thoughtful tooling.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Diploma, Honors Diploma at Fairport High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Linguistics, and Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Linguistics, and Political Science at McGill University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
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Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
jekyll/github-metadata
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
Jekyll plugin to propagate the `site.github` namespace and set default values for use with GitHub Pages.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 releases, 18 reviews, 279 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Parker primarily focused on enhancing the Jekyll GitHub Metadata library by introducing new features, such as a method to clear out all the values, easy access to values, and the addition of an environment variable. They also addressed authentication with a client. Additionally, the user was responsible for refactoring the code base, adding a new test suite for values, and fixing errors in the testing framework. They also addressed an issue with the API, making a few improvements to the code.
jekyll-plugindefault-valuesrubynamespacejekyll
jekyll/jekyll-import
Jan 2013 - Oct 2021
:inbox_tray: The "jekyll import" command for importing from various blogs to Jekyll format.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 55 reviews, 454 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Parker contributed significantly to the project by adding essential files, including import command files and various importer files for different blog platforms. They implemented a command line interface (CLI) command for importing data from different blog platforms, and set up tests to validate slug conversion, specifically regarding special characters and slashes. The user made style and code-based improvements, enhancing the functionality and structure of the project.
inboxtrayjekyll-importjekyll-pluginimporting
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