Parker Van Roy
Co-Founder & CTO at Equal IQ
Greater Boston United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolParker Van Roy is a Co-Founder and CTO with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, containerized systems and applied AI solutions across startups and major platforms. Based in Greater Boston, he brings deep systems expertise in Typescript, Python, C++, Go and low-level languages, and has production experience with Kubernetes, Docker/Podman, GPU acceleration, and big data visualization. At Red Hat he contributed to Podman’s backend—improving image auto-updates and network handling—and now applies that open-source, backend-first mindset at AWS and his own venture, Equal IQ. He pairs academic rigor from Boston University and astronomy studies at Cornell with practical leadership, having led Google Cloud student projects and developed simulation tooling used by graduate researchers. Outside core engineering he coaches fencing, signaling a coach’s temperament and discipline that he brings to team leadership and technical mentorship.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Continuing Ed, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Continuing Ed, Astronomy and Astrophysics at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Boston University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (10)
error-handling10
container10
docker10
go10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods9
occi9
kubernetes9
api-design8
system-design7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
containers/podman
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 2 commits, 15 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Parker primarily contributed to the `podman` project's backend functionality. Their work involved resolving parsing errors related to image tags, improving error reporting, and refactoring code for network list operations. They also implemented features related to auto-updating container images by comparing digests and updating local images. Furthermore, they made various code changes and refactoring in the network list function to improve the codebase.
containersrunclinuxpodmandocker
ParkerVR/podman
Jun 2020 - May 2021
libpod is a library used to create container pods. Home of Podman.
Contributions:101 pushes, 16 branches in 10 months
containersruncseccomppodmanpods
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.