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{
"basics": {
"name": "Calvin Hendryx-Parker",
"label": "CTO and Co-Founder",
"picture": "https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/4d1fa184d439599ed301821daec94063",
"email": "calvin@sixfeetup.com",
"phone": "+1 (415) 320-3308",
"website": "http://about.me/calvinhp",
"summary": "Calvin Hendryx-Parker is the co-founder and CTO of Six Feet Up, a Python development and Cloud consulting company established in 1999. At Six Feet Up, Calvin establishes the company's technical vision and leads all aspects of the company's technology development. He provide the strategic vision for enhancing the offerings of the company and infrastructure, and works with the team to set company priorities and implement processes that will help improve product and service development. Calvin is the co-founder of the Python user group IndyPy, the largest tech meetup in Indiana with 1,700+ members. In 2017, he also founded IndyAWS, now the fastest growing cloud meetup in the state with 700+ members.",
"location": {
"address": "11208 Windermere Blvd",
"region": "Indiana",
"city": "Fishers",
"postalCode": "46037",
"countryCode": "US"
},
"profiles": [
{
"network": "Github",
"username": "calvinhp",
"url": "https://github.com/calvinhp"
},
{
"network": "Twitter",
"username": "calvinhp",
"url": "https://twitter.com/calvinhp"
},
{
"network": "LinkedIn",
"username": "calvinhp",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvinhp"
}
]
},
"work": [
{
"name": "Six Feet Up, Inc.",
"position": "CTO/Co-Founder",
"url": "http://sixfeetup.com",
"startDate": "2003-02-01",
"summary": "Responsible for establishing the company’s technical vision and leading all aspects of the company’s technology development. Provide the strategic vision for enhancing the offerings of the company and infrastructure. Work with the team to set company priorities and implement processes that will help improve our product and service development. Continually refining our skills at developing and deploying Python, Django and Pyramid Web Applications and APIs.",
"highlights": [
"Won the ConnectTech ICE (Innovation Connectivity & Excellence) Award for work performed on the NASA New Horizons Project",
"Planned the Architecture and Deployed Multi-Million Dollar Health Care Information Portal for Lilly",
"Responsible for Technical Sales and Customer Engagement",
"Provides Insight and Vision Through Various Speaking Engagements at Conferences Worldwide"
]
},
{
"name": "Amazon Web Services",
"position": "AWS Community Hero",
"url": "https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/calvin-hendryx-parker/",
"startDate": "2019-11-01",
"summary": "The AWS Hero program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community."
},
{
"name": "Eleven Fifty Academy",
"position": "Python Instructor",
"url": "http://elevenfifty.org",
"startDate": "2015-02-01",
"endDate": "2019-02-01",
"summary": "Teaching budding programmers using Python in a 5 day immersive program where students learn the basics of computer programming including Syntax, Variables, Constants, Loops, If Logic, Functions, Objects, and Inheritance. Taking the course to the next level by instructing students how to leverage Python & Django to build web applications and connect them to a server.",
"highlights": [
"Created and Delivered the Academy's Python Web Curriculum",
"Created and Delivered the Academy's Programming Fundamentals Curriculum",
"Presented Workshops on DevOps and Deployment Best-Practices",
"Consulted on All New Python Curriculum"
]
},
{
"name": "Epylon Corporation",
"position": "System Engineer",
"url": "http://epylon.com",
"startDate": "2000-02-01",
"endDate": "2003-01-01",
"summary": "Implemented ERP systems, deployed marketplace application servers and spearheaded network trouble-shooting. Optimized web performance for a large B2B ERP application."
},
{
"name": "MGI Software (acquired by Roxio)",
"position": "User Interface/Web Developer",
"startDate": "1999-09-01",
"endDate": "2000-02-01",
"summary": "UI/UX development for commercial photo management and creativity software."
},
{
"name": "Manex Visual Effects",
"position": "UNIX Systems Administrator",
"startDate": "1999-04-01",
"endDate": "1999-09-01",
"summary": "FreeBSD Server Farm Wrangler and Keeper of the Bullet-Time Rig Control System"
},
{
"name": "LivePicture",
"position": "UI Designer/Engineer",
"startDate": "1998-07-01",
"endDate": "1999-09-01",
"summary": "UI/UX development for commercial photo management and creativity software."
}
],
"volunteer": [
{
"organization": "IndyPy",
"position": "Founder and Organizer",
"url": "https://indypy.org/",
"startDate": "2007-04-13",
"summary": "The Indiana Python Meetup (IndyPy) is a leading national group promoting the Python programming language and connecting the Python community.",
"highlights": [
"Largest single technology MeetUp in Indiana",
"Launched an annual conference series around Python topics"
]
},
{
"organization": "IndyAWS",
"position": "Founder and Organizer",
"url": "https://www.meetup.com/IndyAWS/",
"startDate": "2017-01-31",
"summary": "The Indianapolis Amazon Web Services User Group.",
"highlights": [
"Fastest growing single technology MeetUp in Indiana",
"Launched an annual Cloud Conference in Indianapolis"
]
},
{
"organization": "Plone Foundation",
"position": "President",
"url": "https://plone.org/",
"startDate": "2015-05-01",
"endDate": "2017-08-01",
"summary": "Leading the efforts to protect and promote the Plone Open Source project."
},
{
"organization": "The Iron Yard",
"position": "Indianapolis Advisory Board Member",
"url": "https://www.theironyard.com/",
"startDate": "2010-10-01",
"endDate": "2011-11-01",
"summary": "Helping build better developers for the Indianapolis tech community."
}
],
"education": [
{
"institution": "Purdue University",
"url": "https://purdue.edu",
"area": "Computer Graphics Technology",
"studyType": "Bachelor of Science",
"startDate": "1993-08-01",
"endDate": "1998-05-01",
"courses": [
"Alias/Wavefront Certified Level 1"
]
}
],
"awards": [
{
"title": "2019 Nominee, Community Champion of the Year",
"date": "2019-02-12",
"awarder": "Techpoint Mira Awards"
},
{
"title": "2016 Nominee, Tech Educator of the Year",
"date": "2016-02-12",
"awarder": "Techpoint Mira Awards"
}
],
"certificates": [
{
"name": "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner",
"date": "2019-12-01",
"issuer": "Amazon Web Services"
}
],
"publications": [
{
"name": "Modeling Contested Categorization in Linguistic Databases",
"publisher": "Proceedings of the EMELD ’06 Workshop on Digital Language Documentation: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art",
"releaseDate": "2006-07-20",
"website": "http://emeld.org/workshop/2006/papers/GoodHendryxParker-Modelling.pdf"
}
],
"skills": [
{
"name": "Artificial Intelligence",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"LLM",
"Vector Databases"
]
},
{
"name": "Big Data",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"Airflow",
"Databricks/Apache Spark",
"CI/CD"
]
},
{
"name": "Software Development",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"Python",
"Django",
"Pyramid",
"Javascript",
"CI/CD"
]
},
{
"name": "System Architecture",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"Software Delivery",
"Private/Hybrid Cloud"
]
},
{
"name": "Cloud Orchestration",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"Amazon Web Services",
"Azure Cloud",
"Terraform",
"Kubernetes"
]
}
],
"languages": [
{
"language": "English",
"fluency": "Native speaker"
},
{
"language": "French",
"fluency": "Conversational"
}
],
"interests": [
{
"name": "Unix/Linux",
"keywords": [
"FreeBSD",
"Ubuntu"
]
},
{
"name": "Teaching",
"keywords": [
"Computer Programming",
"Cloud Computing"
]
},
{
"name": "Running",
"keywords": [
"New York City Marathon"
]
}
],
"meta": {
"version": "1.2",
"lastModified": "2023-09-18",
"theme": "elegant"
}
}
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