# Parker Pestana

> Software Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/parkerpestana

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Gusto
Jan 2022 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Solo Developer @ Cozier
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Brooklyn, New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ethos Life
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas Area
•	Worked on our Checkout and Submission flows for various product offerings. This involved working closely with Product and Design in order to run experiments that drive growth.

•	Worked on our payment APIs to support various methods of processing payments based on the type of policy being purchased. 

•	Worked as a full-stack dev on an app that supports life insurance agents selling policies through Ethos. The app was built using Svelte on the frontend and Golang, PostgresSQL on the backend. 

•	Designed and built a queue service built on AWS's SQS to help scale our web servers.

### Contract Software Engineer (Remote) @ Rumpl
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Led the development of a public Shopify app that can be installed on any store and is built on React/Apollo, Node.js/Mongodb, Redis, and GraphQL

### Full-Stack Software Engineer @ Everlane
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Developed a CMS application built with React/Redux on the front-end, Ruby-on-rails/MySQL on the backend, and Jest/Enzyme and Capybara for testing. 

•	Worked end-to-end on features that allowed non-engineers to build, customize, and launch home pages, product pages, collection pages, banners, and other key, user-facing components of Everlane.com.

•	Developed and launched landing pages for 2 of the most successful product launches.

•	Played a key role in improving our development process by introducing front-end testing, moving from BuildKite to CircleCI for deployment, and improving our product development process.

### Software Engineer @ Gener8
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA
•	Developed a fully automated calibration procedure for a 3D imaging technology in C#/.NET. This included image processing, statistical analysis, and instrument control. Modified and interfaced with a highly optimized C/C++ library to operate both OEM and customer cameras

•	Created a socket communication protocol for a cloud-based control system used for solar panel scheduling with Python and Zigbee

•	Developed calibration/testing procedures for a set of aircraft gauges, a medical incubator, and a brain infusion pump in C#/.NET

•	Developed firmware on STM8/STM32 MCUs in C for aircraft gauges and a medical incubator

•	Full-Stack developer on a RESTful web application using Python, Flask, Jinja, and PostgreSQL to interface with our manufacturing data. Some features include: manufacturing data reports, device statistics, purchase requests, etc.

### Contract Software Engineer @ Gener8
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, CA
•	Developed and maintained a manufacturing test framework for testing/calibrating numerous electronic/mechanical devices using C#/.NET and MySQL. This framework interfaces with hardware, processes data, and provides user instructions in order to ensure that products meet our specifications

### Internship @ eCullet
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Palo Alto, CA


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Davis
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/parker-pestana

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Source: https://flows.cv/parkerpestana
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Last updated: 2026-03-23