Sean Parmelee
Principal Engineer at Bevel
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Parmelee is a Principal Engineer based in Austin with 13 years of experience building lean, high-performance front-end applications and platforms. He specializes in JavaScript and modern React/Next.js stacks, and has led migrations from monoliths to micro front-end architectures using TypeScript, GraphQL, and Node.js. Sean combines deep practical familiarity with older ecosystems (Backbone, jQuery, Java/J2EE) and modern tooling, having contributed to and maintained tooling like backbone.layoutmanager to keep legacy libraries interoperable with Lodash and improved test coverage. He has a track record of architecting developer-friendly platforms and shipping production-ready UI systems at scale across companies like HomeAway/Vrbo and Care.com. Known for pragmatic, performance-first engineering, he often bridges legacy constraints and modern front-end best practices.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (10)
javascript10
lodash10
backbone10
backbonejs10
testing9
front-end-development9
qunit8
nodejs6
webpack6
marionette6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
UNMAINTAINED 7/31/18: A layout and template manager for Backbone applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 17 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Sean primarily focused on improving and testing the `backbone.layoutmanager` library, demonstrating a strong grasp of JavaScript and its integration with libraries like Lodash and Backbone.js. Their contributions included refactoring code to align with newer versions of Lodash, ensuring the library's continued functionality and addressing related testing issues. Furthermore, the user worked to update testing infrastructure to use both underscore and lodash for all views tests. This included adding and updating tests, and adjusting the source code to better integrate with the different libraries.
template-managertemplatelayoutbackbone
seanparmelee/qmk_firmware
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:25 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 10 months
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