Rich Parrish
Software Engineer at Facebook
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Parrish is a software engineer and engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling consumer products at Meta, Google, and Bay Area startups. He has shipped data-informed features and multimodal AI integrations to hundreds of millions of users, led teams from small greenfield squads to multi-site groups, and driven measurable impact—saving millions and increasing daily active users across products. Comfortable across front-end, backend, and ML-infused experiences, he has modernized large-scale web and mobile systems (React/Relay, GraphQL, Elixir, Go) and introduced robust testing and CI practices that prevented hundreds of bugs and production incidents. He’s particularly focused on hybrid engineer+agent workflows, having integrated image generation into LLM agent pipelines at Meta.ai, and is adept at navigating high-ambiguity environments while maintaining team morale through major org changes. Based in New York, Rich blends product sensibility with hands-on execution and a proven knack for turning experimental tech into reliable, revenue-driving features.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Business Innovation, International Business, Business Innovation, International Business at Maastricht UniversityBachelor's, Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation, Economic Consulting, Bachelor's, Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation, Economic Consulting at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
Github Skills (83)
npm-scripts9
perfect9
google-api9
router9
mongodb-database9
nodemon9
mongodb9
client-library8
database8
nosql8
react8
js-client8
gitlab8
watch7
ruby7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rps/livemuni
Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:84 commits in 1 year
rps/Realtime-Transit-Display
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 8 branches in 5 months
realtimemunibartofficestransit
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