Nick Parsons
Director Of Marketing at Clerk.com
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarNick Parsons is an engineer-turned-marketer and the Director of Marketing at Clerk in Boulder, Colorado, with 12 years of experience building developer-focused products and teams. He has a track record scaling developer programs—helping Stream grow from 5 to 100+ employees—by owning SDKs, docs, CLI tooling and developer experience while recruiting and leading distributed dev rel teams. As a founder and technical lead (6px, Simplate) he built API-first infrastructure with Apollo GraphQL, Node/TypeScript, MongoDB, Redis and AWS, giving him hands-on credibility with engineers. Nick is an active open-source contributor who improves front-end UX, SEO and documentation (notably on GetStream examples and NextAuth docs), and he even tweaks dark-mode styling and analytics to boost adoption. He brings that technical depth to early-stage GTM and content strategies, marrying product empathy with measurable growth.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
css10
next-js10
amazon-web-services10
amazon-ec210
javascripts10
html10
nginx10
react10
user-interface9
webpages9
userinterface9
ui-design9
interface-design9
documentations9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
GetStream/stream-react-example
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
Use React and Redux to build your own feature-rich and scalable social network app! Visit cabin.getstream.io for an overview of all 8 tutorials and a live demo.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 8 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on front-end development, making significant contributions to the user interface of the React application. They added and modified HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to improve the UI/UX, including adding links, updating copy, and fixing CSS issues. The user also implemented SEO improvements by adding meta tags and updating blog post links. Furthermore, the user worked on demo page updates, enhancing its styling and structure.
social-networklive-demoreactscalablegetstream-io
nextauthjs/next-auth
Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
Authentication for the Web.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick focused on enhancing the documentation website for NextAuth.js. Their contributions included updating clerk sponsorship callouts and links, fixing dark mode styling for the clerk sponsorship CTA, adding analytics tracking with Clerk's Twitter pixel, and adjusting the z-index of the Clerk homepage sponsorship. These changes primarily involved modifications to the documentation's UI and integration of third-party services like Clerk.
solidjsnuxtnextauthaccess-tokenspid
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