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Thomas Clifford Parker

Thomas Clifford Parker

San Francisco,CA

Summary

Experienced Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of full-stack experience in healthcare and fintech industries. Specializes in backend architecture, leading cross-functional teams, and providing mentorship. Proficient in service-oriented architecture, event-driven systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ, React-based UI development, and integrating AI tools. Recognized for strong communication skills, thorough documentation practices, and proactive problem-solving in dynamic environments.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer II

Hinge Health
04.2021 - 05.2025
  • Led unification of PSFS (Patient-Specific Functional Score) across frontend and backend services. Delivered scalable data flow between MCDS, Basilisk, and PHX apps, improving personalization for >10,000 members.
  • Integrated Overdub AI voice synthesis using Descript APIs, enabling dynamic multi-language audio generation. Reduced audio processing time by 40% and increased content localization flexibility.
  • Owned Condition Editing ingress initiative, managing 17+ Jira tickets, reducing member onboarding time by ~20%, and ensuring seamless rollout through feature flag logic in My Care.
  • Led Kafka/Avro event schema migration in MCDS, reducing backend schema validation issues by 80% and improving data consistency across services.
  • Built Activity Tab Calendar and Check-in features in PHX, which improved member engagement tracking accuracy and UI responsiveness, leading to a 15% increase in logged activity data.
  • Mentored teammates and led rituals including pair programming, onboarding support, and PR reviews. Helped reduce new engineer onboarding time by ~25%.
  • Authored clear technical specs and Confluence documentation, referenced by 5+ teams and used to align multi-pod efforts during cross-functional initiatives.
  • Proactively raised architectural risks and unowned dependencies, leading to resolution of blockers that accelerated project timelines by up to 2 weeks in some cases.

Software Engineer

SmartBiz Loans
10.2018 - 10.2020
  • Rebuilt the marketing website with Gatsby and our internal design system, improving google analytics site speed from 60% to 90% while maintaining static site SEO advantages and a modern tech stack.
  • Doubled overall unit test code coverage from 25% to 50% with the Jest and Enzyme testing suite, boosting confidence in code base reliability.
  • Built React components for a company-wide design system using Storybook, creating a single reference for the product and marketing teams to speed up development and testing immeasurably.
  • Refactored React code to enhance maintainability, boosting code climate rating from an F to a B.
  • Architected a Sentry utility class in order to track errors in production, allowing the team to identify and address bugs quickly.
  • Primary developer for Flask/Jinja project, building a 20 page linear application to process over 1300 paycheck protection loan forgiveness applications at the height of the COVID 19 pandemic.
  • Extended our bank reviewer React application with five new loan states to aid in processing loan forgiveness applications, improving the speed our bank partners could process loans and send them to the SBA.
  • Integrated electronic signature capabilities into our application via the HelloSign API, adding new pages for our customers allowing them to 'self-serve', freeing up valuable time for our application reviewers.

Software Engineering Teaching Assistant

Hack Reactor
01.2018 - 04.2018
  • Mentored 150+ engineers on developing full stack web applications, including one on one sessions and assisting with debugging student code.
  • Assessed and resolved 50 - 100 tickets per week, answering subjects including CS fundamentals, client-side frameworks, server applications, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

Education

Certificate - Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program

Hack Reactor
San Francisco, CA
01.2018

B.S. - Biotechnology (Bioinformatics emphasis)

University of California
03.2015

Skills

  • Frontend: React, React Native, Redux, PHX, HTML5, CSS3
  • Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby
  • Backend: Nodejs, Express, NestJS, Flask, Python, RabbitMQ, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
  • DevOps & Tooling: Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Loki, CI/CD pipelines, Avro, Datadog
  • Testing: Jest, Enzyme
  • Collaboration: Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Slack, Guru

Activities

  • Gamer
  • Hiking Enthusiast
  • Coffee Addict
  • Nature Lover

Work Availability

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Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

RemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balanceCompany CultureCareer advancementWork from home option401k matchStock Options / Equity / Profit SharingPersonal development programsTeam Building / Company Retreats

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual

Interests

Coffee

Hiking

Fitness

Video Games

History

Timeline

Software Engineer II

Hinge Health
04.2021 - 05.2025

Software Engineer

SmartBiz Loans
10.2018 - 10.2020

Software Engineering Teaching Assistant

Hack Reactor
01.2018 - 04.2018

Certificate - Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program

Hack Reactor

B.S. - Biotechnology (Bioinformatics emphasis)

University of California

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