Robert Parcus
Co-Founder at Functional Effects
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolRobert Parcus is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building and scaling products across fintech, crypto, and smart-city domains, now co-founding The Grid and leading Functional Effects. He blends deep backend expertise (notably Elixir) and distributed systems experience with hands-on product leadership from founding roles at FoundYou and TingPark to engineering leadership at BlockFi and Crypto.com. Comfortable across information security, architecture, and informatics, he has repeatedly moved teams from prototypes to production in APAC and global markets. His background spans academia and industry—from an MPhil in an unconventional field to Google Summer of Code work visualizing neuroinformatics data—highlighting a rare mix of technical breadth and curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Big Data Algorithms and Techniques Computer Science, Big Data Algorithms and Techniques Computer Science at City University of Hong KongBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Università degli Studi di PerugiaMSc in Advanced Information Systems Computer Science, MSc in Advanced Information Systems Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
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Github Skills (93)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Spectral-Finance/lux
Feb 2025 - May 2025
Lux is an open-source framework for building multi-agent, swarmed intelligence built by Spectral Labs. With Beams, Prisms, Lenses, and Signals, it orchestrates AI-driven workflows to create truly autonomous organizations.
Contributions:125 reviews, 84 PRs, 140 pushes in 2 months
aimulti-agentagentsllmsweb3
blockfi/pg_ranges
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
PostgreSQL range types for Ecto
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 5 PRs in 8 months
elixirpsqlpostgresqlrangeecto
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