# Sam P.

> Senior Software Engineer at Grubhub

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/samp

Software Engineer at Grubhub - Contributor to Swell, an API development tool for streaming protocols - Creator/maintainer of plugins for module bundling, transpilation, and linting

https://github.com/sam-parsons

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Grubhub
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer II @ Grubhub
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Board Member, Secretary @ New York Chamber Players Orchestra
Jan 2019 – Present | New York, NY
Assisting a world-class chamber orchestra in broadening range of audience, raising public profile, and furthering artistic excellence as an advisor.

### Technical Instructor @ Codesmith
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area

### Snowpack plugins @ Open Source
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | snowpack-plugin-dsv, -closure-compiler, -run, -coffeescript
- Used Snowpack’s plugin lifecycle methods to load, transform, and optimize assets as well as execute terminal commands after bundling.
- Used Google's Closure Compiler to reduce file size of bundled assets after performing static code analysis.
- Integrated d3-dsv parsing library and CoffeeScript compiler with Snowpack build pipeline, expanding the range of bundled assets.
- Utilized Jest to implement snapshot testing as well as asynchronously asserting message logging from child processes.

### Babel plugins @ Open Source
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | babel-plugin-comparison-chaining, -walrus-operator, -array-comprehensions
- Used Babel plugin API to transform distinct patterns of an AST, altering order of execution for chained comparison expressions.
- Utilized Mocha/Chai to process fixtures, asserting inputs given into babel-core’s transformFileSync match prebuilt templates.

### Software Engineer @ Swell
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
- Integrated Electron’s IPC API by creating custom event listeners, establishing a communication channel between main Node.js process and renderer process in Chromium, bypassing CORS restrictions to provide unfettered access to response headers.	
- Employed Apollo Client to implement full GraphQL support for queries and mutations over HTTP as well as subscriptions over WebSockets, sending and receiving appropriate headers and cookies.
- Used ApolloLink to compose a series of middleware that create an HTTP connection to a specified endpoint, collect headers and cookies, and render any errors, providing a modularized network data flow.
- Migrated WebSocket connections to Node process, creating a template for future relocation of HTTP2, SSE, and GraphQL subscriptions.
- Implemented collection exports by creating a parsing algorithm that transforms objects into a text file, in addition to imports by devising file type and format checking algorithm, allowing the distribution of centralized request collections amongst teams.


## Education
### BA
University of Michigan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samparsons269
- Website: https://sam-parsons.github.io/
- GitHub: https://github.com/sam-parsons

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Last updated: 2026-03-22