Michael Parker

About Michael Parker

I\'m a principal software engineer and tech lead for payouts at Square, ensuring that billions of dollars are paid out to millions of sellers worldwide in an accurate and timely manner. Before joining Square, I was a developer and then manager on the core services team at Airbnb. And before that, I wrote software at Google, Khan Academy, and Burner. I have over 15 years professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on backend and infrastructure.

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer

   Square

   Jul 2018 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   I’m a tech lead for payouts at Square. After a seller makes a sale, our team ensures that their money is deposited into their bank account in an accurate and timely manner. Every year, we are responsible for paying out over billion dollars to millions of sellers across the world, including sellers in the United States, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Japan. We also ensure that each seller’s money can be moved near-instantly to other internal balances for spending, such as Square checking and savings accounts.In this capacity I lead a team of 8, and provide guidance to a broader banking infrastructure team of almost 40. In my tenure at Square, I have led or assisted with multiple initiatives to improve the reliability of payouts, increasing its availability to in 2022. I have also led or assisted with the development of many features that provide more sophisticated accounting of funds, and faster and easier access to money belonging to sellers.Since starting at Square, I am the #2 committer to the Java repository by lines of code, and #3 by number of commits.

Education

• UCLA

  BS (with honors), Computer Science and Engineering

  2000 — 2004

• UCLA

  MS, Computer Science

  2004 — 2006

Skills

• Software Engineering
• Redis
• Javascript
• Android
• Java
• Sql
• Git
• Python
• Iphone
• Testing
• Ios
• Writing
• Mentoring
• Objective-C
• Programming
• Couchdb