Hey, I'm Parker Landon đź‘‹
I'm currently working as a Fullstack Software Engineer at Smartsheet.
Here's a timeline of where I've been and what I'm up to:
2026
Currently working on Habit Hatchery. Started making YouTube videos again.
Quote for the year:
2025
Heads down as I transitioned into the professional world, improving as a software engineer and, of course, building various side projects. Promoted to mid-level. Moved to Seattle and met amazing, like-minded people in the city.
Quote for the year:
We who cut mere stones must be envisioning cathedrals.
2024
Graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a 4.0 GPA and three majors—Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, and Honors Liberal Arts—and a minor in Data Analytics. I published a research paper for my Honors degree about implementing parsers and interpreters in Haskell. I returned to Smartsheet, joining the Conversations team as a full-time Software Engineer.
2023
Continued building personal projects and excelling in school. I returned to Smartsheet as a summer intern once more, this time working on a decoupling project that involved refactoring legacy frontend code.
2022
Began developing a full-stack participation-tracking application (called knowted) for professors to use in their courses. This web application integrates with the Canvas Learning Management System to streamline student participation tracking for course instructors. You can read more about this project in my portfolio section.
After applying to some 100 applications and several interviews, I landed a software engineering internship with Smartsheet. Spent the summer working with PMs, designers, UX researchers, and other engineers to design and implement a solution based on user stories and requirements. The experience facilitated me working with every layer in the tech stack, from the React/TypeScript frontend to the Java backend and MySQL database. Ultimately, the internship confirmed my passion for software engineering.
2021
Continued work as an intern for egghead.io, taking on GitHub issues, contributing to the site, and reviewing courses. Led my own Portfolio Project Club iteration, this time focusing on state management in React. Grew more confident as a web developer, and left feeling ready to take on large-scale projects and more demanding developer responsibilities.
2020
Started studying Computer Science at Seattle Pacific University. Amid the strange pandemic times, I managed to stay busy. I participated in a Portfolio Project Club hosted by egghead. Each member designed and built a web project that would make for an impressive portfolio piece. I built an app called tends that simplified the tracking of quantities (e.g., calories, exercise, etc.) for users. I published by own technical case study detailing the experience, which now lives on egghead.io .
2019
Began programming seriously through an AP Computer Science class and eventually started working for egghead.io reviewing older web development courses hosted on their platform. This work reignited my interest in web development and, over the following year, I picked up React, TypeScript, and several other technologies.
2012
When the librarian restricted my computer lab access to Flash games like Adventure Quest and Bloons Tower Defense, I decided I would make my own Flash game website. I lept down the rabbit hole and began learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, ultimately to discover that coding is not just a means to "flash-game-ends" but is an end in and of itself. In other words, I found coding to be fun.
I'm so busy in the best way possible. Every day I code and read to improve as an engineer. I'm traveling and enjoying life more than ever. It's not easy, but I'm so aligned with this trajectory, and I only want to do more. My extra-work career goals for now are,
- Write more
- Make more content (check out my YouTube)
- Build an awesome product
Cheers.