Karen Parker
Software Engineering Manager at Google
Woodinville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaren Parker is a seasoned software engineering manager with 10 years of experience leading teams at Google and a brief staff-engineer stint at Aktify, based in Woodinville, Washington. She combines deep technical chops—especially in front-end UX enhancements—with proven people leadership, having progressed from engineer to manager and tech lead roles across multiple Google teams. Her open-source contributions include significant improvements to the widely used angular/material project, where she enhanced MdPanel behavior, accessibility, and animation APIs to improve real-world UX. Karen is skilled at turning nuanced product needs into robust, user-facing features while mentoring engineers to ship at scale. A Harvey Mudd computer science graduate, she brings a strong technical foundation and a track record of driving both code-level quality and team growth.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (7)
angularjs-material10
material-design10
javascript10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
html9
css9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
angular/material
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Material design for AngularJS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 29 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Karen contributed significantly to the `angular/material` repository, focusing on enhancements to the MdPanel component. Their work involved adding new configuration options for panel behavior, including features like click-outside-to-close, escape-to-close, and focus management. They also introduced animation capabilities with default animations (slide, scale, fade) and an API method for custom animations, indicating a focus on improving user experience. Additionally, the user updated the panel positioning to be calculated after rendering.
angularjsmaterial-designangularjs-materialjavascriptlts
KarenParker/material
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:74 pushes, 33 branches in 1 month
materialmaterial-designangular
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