Simon Parker

Staff Software Engineer at Rippling

Products: Rippling AI, Talent Signal

• Built Rippling's unified AI assistant across HR, IT, Finance, Payroll, and other product areas, focusing on reasoning flows, agent skills, and product integrations.
• Merged product-specific agents into a shared assistant platform with common skill patterns, evaluation coverage, and integration paths for product teams.
• Wrote agentic evals and built infrastructure that teams use to measure assistant behavior and safely add product actions.
• Coached partner product teams on assistant integrations, agent skill design, and product surfaces that fit Rippling workflows.
• Built internal AI tooling, including a Slack issue triager that reads source code and LangSmith traces to diagnose issues and explain failures to engineers.
• Built Talent Signal features for Performance Management, using Python, PySpark, Spark internals, Databricks, and Spark performance tuning to give managers structured context for fair report evaluation.

Software Engineer at Stripe

Products: Stripe Issuing, Stripe Connect, Stripe Treasury

• Drove the safe migration of a service powering Stripe Issuing and processing incoming card network authorizations.
• Tracked and drove down operational toil across Connect, Treasury, and Issuing.
• Contributed to internal best-practice guides and set the standard for code and test quality.
• Served as Security DRI, responsible for maintaining company-wide security standards on the team.
• Collaborated with teams across the company, including BaaS and Search, to scope and execute cross-organizational efforts.
• Drove multiple key improvements to the Stripe Dashboard for Connect Platforms.

Engineer & People Manager at Pivotal Labs

80% of my time was dedicated to consulting clients and 20% to managing fellow engineers.

• Consulted product teams inside major global companies including JP Morgan Chase, Dick's Sporting Goods, Ford, and USAF across 10 engagements; served as full-stack technical lead on 9.
• Taught test-driven development, pair programming, and full-stack delivery by working directly with clients as a player-coach.
• Ran technical and behavioral interviews for open engineering positions.
• Managed a team of 4-6 engineers.
• Collected and delivered regular feedback from internal colleagues and clients.
• Coached reports to help them grow toward their career goals.

Programmer Analyst at Broadridge Financial Solutions

Maintained and enhanced a fixed-income trading system used by large financial institutions.