Parnell Springmeyer
Director Of Arista-NDR Engineering at Arista Networks
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarParnell Springmeyer is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building products and teams, currently directing Arista’s NDR/Awake engineering organization from Austin. He guided Awake’s transition from a research-focused Haskell/Nix codebase into a multi-tenant SaaS product after Arista’s acquisition, combining deep technical fluency with product and operational leadership. Earlier roles include co-founding Whoosh Traffic! (Austin Techstars 2013) and delivering firmware-to-cloud solutions for 10k IoT devices at Plum, showing comfort across hardware, embedded, and cloud stacks. He contributes to open-source Haskell tooling—work on the amazonka AWS SDK highlights his attention to build tooling, networking types, and cross-project compatibility. Known for hands-on technical management, he balances rigorous engineering practices with pragmatic product delivery. Outside work he pursues math, hand-tool woodworking, and outdoor fitness, reflecting a methodical, craft-oriented approach to engineering.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
aws10
haskell10
network-programming9
software-design8
objective-c6
exceptions6
twitter6
abstraction6
php6
kohana6
iphone6
database6
oauth6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
brendanhay/amazonka
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
A comprehensive Amazon Web Services SDK for Haskell.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Parnell contributed to the `amazonka` repository, an AWS SDK for Haskell, by exporting constructors, merging branches, and injecting host headers. Their work involved modifying core types and definitions, focusing on areas related to AWS EC2 types and networking, as well as build tooling to facilitate compatibility. These changes indicate a focus on improving the library's functionality and ensuring compatibility with AWS services.
haskellamazonsdkweb-servicesamazon-web-services
ixmatus/pub
Aug 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 10 months
pipingrediscli-toolpub-substdin
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