Adrian Parsons

Experience

Sophos (New York, NY) Senior Software Engineer (July 2021 – January 2023)

• Go development on a Linux security sensor. Customers including Lyft, Snowflake, and Fastly used the sensor to protect large-scale server deployments.
• Technical team lead for a data integration project. Developed design documents, architectural plans, and collaborated with infrastructure and data teams.
• Coordinated across teams to repackage and integrate the Capsule8 sensor into Sophos Protection for Linux, enhancing the product with advanced runtime detections.
• Integrated Capsule8 and Sophos build systems, pipelines, and workflows, resulting in the launch of the Sophos Linux Sensor product line.

Capsule8 (acquired by Sophos) (New York, NY) Senior Software Engineer (May 2018 – June 2021)

• Go and TypeScript development on a web-based administrative console for an enterprise Linux security sensor.
• Backend web and service development in Go and PostgreSQL.
• Designed and executed an integration with an international channel partner.
• Conducted complete audit and rewrite of public-facing documentation.
• Designed and built internal tools and a prototype SAAS platform with AWS.
• Used HashiCorp's Vagrant to create development environments and helped maintain shared Vagrantfiles, streamlining the development process.
• Configured and operated Kubernetes clusters for Docker orchestration.

Etsy (Brooklyn, NY) Software Engineer (October 2015 – October 2017)

• Full-stack development on a popular international e-commerce site.
• Worked on major redesigns of high-traffic pages and features.
• Developed features for business-critical functions including ads and payments.
• Wrote controllers, business logic, and API endpoints in PHP.
• Designed MySQL database schema and ORM models for new features.
• Built complex user interfaces with React.

Meetup (New York, NY) UI Engineer (June 2011 – October 2015)

• Wrote JavaScript, CSS, and HTML for a Java and Python backend.
• Developed major features and flows for desktop and mobile versions of Meetup.com.
• Introduced Node.js to the build system and created modules to process static files.
• Launched a front-end performance monitoring system powered by statsD and Graphite.
• Wrote SQL to create and manage A/B tests.
• Implemented a JavaScript unit testing system.

Education

Received Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design from the University of Texas at Austin in 2010.