Parker Shelton
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParker Shelton is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable developer tools and infrastructure for large-scale communication and security platforms. At Microsoft he has led technical efforts across Teams, IC3 communication services, and the Microsoft Security Graph, helping defend against threat actors and enable compliant cloud services for government and enterprise customers. His background spans distributed microservices, DevSecOps, and certification work for SOC, FedRAMP High, and DoD IL levels, demonstrating a blend of hands-on engineering and security-first architecture. Parker also contributes to open-source documentation—improving clarity and removing sensitive references in high-profile projects like the Bot Framework SDK—highlighting a focus on accuracy and responsible communication. Based in Sunnyvale and trained at Johns Hopkins, he combines deep operational experience with a knack for tightening documentation and developer workflows that reduce risk and improve team velocity.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Github Skills (10)
markdown10
bot-framework10
markdown-it10
sdk10
documentation10
dotnet-core4
csharp4
typescripts3
typescript3
typescript-types3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/botframework-sdk
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Bot Framework provides the most comprehensive experience for building conversation applications.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Parker primarily focused on improving the documentation within the `microsoft/botframework-sdk` repository. Their contributions involved correcting spelling errors, standardizing formatting for consistency, and fixing typos. The user also removed potentially sensitive geopolitical references. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the documentation for the Bot Framework SDK.
azure-bot-servicepythonbotmicrosoft-cognitive-servicesdotnetcore
pshelton-skype/azure-docs
May 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
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