Parker Welch

Overview

I work on cloud infrastructure at Snap in Miami. Built the experimentation framework 12 product teams use to ship changes safely. Most at home with Terraform and incident response. I mentor students through university programmes.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   May 2024 - Present
   Snap · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
   • Backed 20 founders at pre-seed and seed.
   • Led or co-led 24 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Sit on 7 boards.
2. Staff Site Reliability Engineer

   Jun 2021 - May 2024
   Expedia Group · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
   • Shipped 8 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
   • Moved 60% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
   Workday · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
   • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 24% in two quarters.
   • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   May 2016 - Feb 2019
   Amazon · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
   • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 830ms to 63ms.
   • Led the migration of 39 services to incident response.
5. Site Reliability Engineer

   Sep 2014 - May 2016
   Nvidia · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
   • Moved 84% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Shipped 8 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.

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Education

1. MIT

   SB, Computer Science
   2007 - 2011