Sandy Thayer
Freelance Developer at Self-employed
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSandy Parakilas is a product leader and privacy advocate with 11 years of experience shaping user-facing products and policy at major tech companies. As Senior Product Manager, Privacy at Apple, he blends product management and marketing to advance privacy-first features at scale. His background ranges from growth and operations roles at Uber and Facebook to strategic leadership at the Center for Humane Technology, where he helped drive public campaigns and regulatory advocacy. An entrepreneur and musician by training, he co-founded audio startups and studied jazz performance before earning an MBA at Carnegie Mellon, bringing a creative, systems-oriented perspective to product problems. Known for making complex privacy concepts usable, he also enjoys connecting simple tools—hence the playful GitHub motto “APIs + spreadsheets = <3.” Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines operational rigor with policy fluency to ship transparent, user-centered experiences.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at State University of New York at Fredonia
Github Skills (4)
spreadsheet10
google-docs10
jstree10
world-of-warcraft10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
brewk/wowspreadsheet
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
World of Warcraft character tracking spreadsheet for Google Docs
Contributions:1 release, 178 commits, 44 PRs in 8 years
warcraftworld-of-warcraftjstreeworldofwarcrafttracking
brewk/qcoverlay
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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