Parker Self
Founding Engineer at Dandy
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolParker Self is a founding engineer and seasoned technology leader with nine years of experience building startups and product-led engineering teams, currently helping scale Dandy’s mission to modernize dentistry. As Founding Engineer and former Head of Engineering, he blends hands-on backend development with team leadership to deliver infrastructure and product that simplify practice operations for dentists. He previously led product and engineering at Go2 and was a founding engineer at Momentary Ink, demonstrating repeated success in early-stage growth environments. Parker is an active open-source contributor, notably improving GraphQL federation support in the popular NestJS ecosystem by fixing complex union type resolvers and hardening end-to-end federation tests. Based in New York, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a founder’s mindset and a drive to tackle an underserviced industry. A former NCAA Division I lacrosse athlete, he brings competitive team leadership and resilience to technical and organizational challenges.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Penn State UniversityNCAA Division 1 Lacrosse, NCAA Division 1 Lacrosse at United States Air Force Academy
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Github Skills (17)
typescript10
wpgraphql10
nestjs10
federation10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
nodejs10
typescripts10
apollo10
javascript9
testing8
mobile-safari6
react6
progressive-web-apps6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nestjs/graphql
May 2020 - May 2020
GraphQL (TypeScript) module for Nest framework (node.js) 🍷
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Parker primarily focused on enhancing the GraphQL federation capabilities of the NestJS framework. Their commits involved fixing issues related to union type resolvers within federated schemas. They also made improvements and refactorings in core federation logic, including the handling of resolvers and the overall schema transformation. Furthermore, the user implemented and refined end-to-end tests for federation functionalities.
nestjsapollographqltypeormnode-jsjavascript
parkerself22/mui-tables
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Pluggable table library built on top of Material-UI components
Contributions:18 releases, 81 commits, 74 pushes in 7 months
reactmaterialmaterial-designmaterial-ui-componentson-top
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