Shawn Parker
Product Engineer IV at QuizStreak
Denver Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Parker is a Product Engineer IV and full-stack software engineer with 17 years of experience building distributed web systems and RESTful APIs, currently based in the Denver area. He has led and coached small to medium engineering teams at companies like Twilio and RevOps while hands-on building backend services in Python and Go and frontends in React, Svelte, and Next.js. Comfortable across AWS and simpler hosting setups, he combines strong project scoping and CI/CD practices with pragmatic performance optimizations that have reduced bundle sizes and improved observability. An active open-source maintainer, he has contributed notable fixes and features to widely-used projects such as the twilio-php client. He also brings a product-minded perspective from co-owning QuizStreak—where he engineered lightweight, data-driven features and edge job runners—blending user research with low-footprint engineering.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Visual Arts, Bachelor Visual Arts at University of Northern Colorado
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
twilio-api10
php10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
documentation8
testing7
sql-server6
bids6
sql6
visual-studio6
reporting-services6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
twilio/twilio-php
Aug 2011 - Apr 2014
A PHP library for communicating with the Twilio REST API and generating TwiML.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 10 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shawn focused on enhancing the Twilio PHP library. Their contributions include adding a route method to the `Call` class and incorporating connect app support with associated resources. They also fixed character encoding issues within the TwiML generation process and improved media list retrieval. Furthermore, the user updated documentation and addressed an exception handling issue related to paging.
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Gipetto/kvnbtn
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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