Rene Parra
VP Runtime Platform & Architecture
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRene Parra is a seasoned engineering leader and architect with over two decades of hands-on experience and a decade framed as senior leadership, currently serving as VP of Runtime Platform & Architecture at Procore in Austin. He has led large platform organizations (110 people, $40M+ spend) that power 1,500 engineers, delivering rapid compliance (FedRAMP Moderate in 12 months), sub-year global availability zones, and dramatic reliability and developer-experience improvements. Rene blends deep systems and data-platform expertise—from streaming and data mesh to multi-cloud cost attribution—with a talent for operationalizing complex vendor ecosystems and observability toolchains. He champions automation and is pioneering agentic SDLC practices that embed autonomy into planning, code review, deployment, and monitoring. Known for accelerating outcomes where others move slowly, he’s as comfortable in C-level strategy rooms as in code and architecture reviews. An MIT-trained engineer, he quietly combines product-minded platform thinking with an obsession for measurable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (51)
stream10
discovery10
harbor10
stream-processing10
metadata-management10
streaming10
maven-plugin9
gradle9
docker-registry9
gradle-plugin9
orchestration9
maven9
unit-test8
container-image8
java8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
homeaway/homeaway_api_ruby
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
Ruby SDK for the HomeAway API
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 7 months
ruby-sdk
ExpediaGroup/hello-streams
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
hello-streams :: Introducing the stream-first mindset
Contributions:68 commits, 48 PRs, 116 pushes in 3 years
streamsstreamingnodejsstreammindset
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