Parmesh Krishen

Father && Husband && Software Engineer && UI Architect
Profile
Austin, TX

Summary

I am a self-driven, business-minded software engineer with a passion for delivering great software within great teams. I take pride in building solutions that fit the problems and not vice-versa. I strive daily to grow as a teammate, technical leader, and open source contributor.

These days, I am focused on all aspects of UI development - including but not limited to React, TypeScript, frontend libraries, micro frontends, developer tooling, and GraphQL.

Experience

Balyasny Asset Management | Senior Software Engineer
January 2023 - present | Austin, TX (remote)
FullStory | Staff Software Engineer
January 2022 - January 2023 | Austin, TX (remote)
  • Led a team to deliver internationalization of the all the frontend and backend modules
  • Authored a fast, esbuild-based frontend build tool to enhance the developer experience and speed up the CI/CD pipeline by bringing build times to ~5 seconds and by adding live reload capabilities within a custom monorepo setup, ultimately replacing the existing frontend build infrastructure with it
  • Published a linting plugin for React codebases to enforce necessary attributes for FullStory integration
  • Developed static analysis tooling to perform mass operations int eh custom monorepo like codemodding and assessing interdependencies and usage
  • Architected and spiked an approach for independent builds and deploys
Meta (Facebook) | Software Engineer
January 2021 - December 2021 | Austin, TX (remote)
  • Worked on Bloks.js, the JavaScript/React adapter portion of the internal Bloks framework, which enables application logic to be defined once server-side and generates native views for iOS, Android, web, and mobile web, and is integrated across Meta's suite (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.)
  • Consulted with various product teams across Meta to determine fit and assess developer experience
CS Disco | Senior Software Architect && Lead UI Engineer
January 2020 - January 2021 | Austin, TX
CS Disco | Software Architect && Lead UI Engineer
February 2018 - January 2020 | Austin, TX
  • Worked on DISCO Review, an AI-driven ediscovery solution that gives law firms, corporations, and government agencies total control over their data, workflows, and costs
  • Led a team of UI engineers dedicated to feature development for the document viewer, a core piece of the product, while moving it from Backbone to React
  • Improved the existing document viewer implementation to accomplish industry-best performance backed by logging and performance testing
  • Architected the core design system library using React, CSS-in-JS, and TypeScript
  • Helped to form the micro frontends architecture along with a migration strategy to enable UI teams to deploy independently
  • Took initiative to build up the UI team and culture by interviewing, recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, and evangelizing, as well as owning part of the professional development training strategy
Shibumi | Senior Software Engineer
April 2017 - February 2018 | Austin, TX
  • Worked on Shibumi.com, an enterprise software product that manages high impact strategy execution
  • Refocused and rearchitected an existing React project to provide business value
  • Led the migration from the legacy UI to a new UI based on React
  • Started a company-wide effort to move to Behavior-Driven Development via Cucumber and presented the new testing strategy at a company event
  • Developed end-to-end features around roles and permissions
  • Helped to transition from a monolith to a microservice architecture
Onit | Software Developer
May 2014 – April 2017 | Houston, TX
  • Worked on Onit App Builder, an enterprise platform for creating apps to simplify business processes
  • Led UI development in a complete rewrite of the UI based on React
  • Authored a dashboard-like feature called suites to provide valuable cross-app functionality for power users
  • Upgraded the server-side generated legacy UI to an ExtJS single-page app
  • Delegated project subtasks to overseas team and managed the progress
  • Developed a web app that integrated with our in-house project management app to run standup meetings
GHG Corporation | Software Consultant
August 2015 – December 2016 (side job) | Houston, TX
  • Recruited by the leadership of the company to help lead their new project
  • Proposed the solution to achieve Section 508 accessibility standards compliance as required by government customers
GHG Corporation | Software Engineer
August 2012 - May 2014 | Houston, TX
  • Worked on eEMS (now Clockwise), a customizable automated time and attendance system
  • Helped build the new UI based on ExtJS to upgrade the legacy server-side generated UI
  • Developed an end-to-end QuickBooks Online sync feature
  • Implemented an automated build process and a CI/CD pipeline
  • Improved performance of the legacy Java platform by optimizing SQL queries and ORM logic
  • Helped to implement the new REST API
The US Department of Defense | Intern
August 2007 – December 2009 (mainly summers) | Fort Meade, MD
  • Given a scholarship for undergraduate studies
  • Completed given software development lessons and tasks

Education

University of Houston
2007 - 2012 | Houston, TX

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

Oracle Certification
2012 | Houston, TX

Associate Java programmer

Skills

JavaScript TypeScript CSS HTML Node React HTMX ExtJS Backbone D3 Apollo Cypress Cucumber Go Java Ruby C/C++ SQL GraphQL REST CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Linux Git AWS PDF Excel Design Patterns Web App Architecture Developer Experience Web Accessibility Web Performance Testing Project Management Open Source

Miscellany

  • Skipped a grade and started college with a scholarship and an internship at age 16
  • Swam competitively and earned the Michael Poor Sportsmanship Award from the community
  • Studied French and learned to play the guitar and the flute