Ollie Parsley
Founder at Zen+ Health
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOllie Parsley is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 14 years building high-throughput, user-focused software and teams across the UK, US and Malaysia. He created Don't Interrupt to help millions work and unwind more calmly and now leads Zen+ Health to proactively surface early mental-health shifts in the workplace, combining product empathy with technical rigor. Previously he scaled real-time data platforms at DataSift and led global engineering teams and API products at Meltwater, owning delivery, architecture and cross-team coordination. A pragmatic full-stack engineer who still contributes to open-source (notably improvements to the Slack API in Go), he blends hands-on development with people-first management and operational discipline. Based in Reading, England, he brings a track record of turning complex data and integration challenges into reliable, user-centred products.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Open Degree Internet technologies web server management database management and app development, BSc Open Degree Internet technologies web server management database management and app development at The Open UniversityFdSc Computing and Internet Technology - with distinction Web development database systems HCI network design and systems analysis, FdSc Computing and Internet Technology - with distinction Web development database systems HCI network design and systems analysis at University Centre Yeovil
English
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Github Skills (15)
go10
api10
slack-api10
apidoc10
oauth9
golang9
testing7
exceptions6
nodejs6
nginx6
javascript6
android6
jquery6
counter6
streaming6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
slack-go/slack
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Slack API in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 63 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ollie primarily focused on improving the Slack API in Go. Their contributions include code formatting updates across multiple files, adding the `api_app_id` to interactions and events, and supporting V2 OAuth for granular permissions. They also worked on scheduled messages and addressed code issues.
goslack-apislackgolang
ollieparsley/node-site-monitor
Feb 2012 - Apr 2021
A Node.JS app for monitoring websites and alerting when they are down
Contributions:1 review, 48 commits, 4 PRs in 9 years 3 months
jsmonitoring
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