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Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

CTO and Co-Founder
11208 Windermere Blvd, Fishers, Indiana, US, 46037
+1 (415) 320-3308
calvin@sixfeetup.com
http://about.me/calvinhp
English, French

Background

About

About

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.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • CTO/Co-Founder, Six Feet Up, Inc.

    Feb, 2003 - Present

    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.

    • 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

  • AWS Community Hero, Amazon Web Services

    Nov, 2019 - Present

    The AWS Hero program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community.

  • Python Instructor, Eleven Fifty Academy

    Feb, 2015 - Feb, 20194 years

    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.

    • 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

  • System Engineer, Epylon Corporation

    Feb, 2000 - Jan, 20032 years 11 months

    Implemented ERP systems, deployed marketplace application servers and spearheaded network trouble-shooting. Optimized web performance for a large B2B ERP application.

  • User Interface/Web Developer, MGI Software (acquired by Roxio)

    Sep, 1999 - Feb, 20005 months

    UI/UX development for commercial photo management and creativity software.

  • UNIX Systems Administrator, Manex Visual Effects

    Apr, 1999 - Sep, 19995 months

    FreeBSD Server Farm Wrangler and Keeper of the Bullet-Time Rig Control System

  • UI Designer/Engineer, LivePicture

    Jul, 1998 - Sep, 19991 year 2 months

    UI/UX development for commercial photo management and creativity software.

Skills

Skills

  • Artificial Intelligence

    LLM

    Vector Databases

  • Big Data

    Airflow

    Databricks/Apache Spark

    CI/CD

  • Software Development

    Python

    Django

    Pyramid

    Javascript

    CI/CD

  • System Architecture

    Software Delivery

    Private/Hybrid Cloud

  • Cloud Orchestration

    Amazon Web Services

    Azure Cloud

    Terraform

    Kubernetes

Education

Education

  • Computer Graphics Technology, Bachelor of Science, Purdue University

    Aug, 1993 - May, 1998

    Alias/Wavefront Certified Level 1

Certificates

Certificates

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon Web Services

    Issued on: Dec 01, 2019

Awards

Awards

  • 2019 Nominee, Community Champion of the Year , Techpoint Mira Awards

    Awarded on: Feb 12, 2019

  • 2016 Nominee, Tech Educator of the Year , Techpoint Mira Awards

    Awarded on: Feb 12, 2016

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Founder and Organizer, IndyPy

    Apr, 2007 - Present

    The Indiana Python Meetup (IndyPy) is a leading national group promoting the Python programming language and connecting the Python community.

    • Largest single technology MeetUp in Indiana

    • Launched an annual conference series around Python topics

  • Founder and Organizer, IndyAWS

    Jan, 2017 - Present

    The Indianapolis Amazon Web Services User Group.

    • Fastest growing single technology MeetUp in Indiana

    • Launched an annual Cloud Conference in Indianapolis

  • President, Plone Foundation

    May, 2015 - Aug, 2017

    Leading the efforts to protect and promote the Plone Open Source project.

  • Indianapolis Advisory Board Member, The Iron Yard

    Oct, 2010 - Nov, 2011

    Helping build better developers for the Indianapolis tech community.

Publications

Publications

  • Modeling Contested Categorization in Linguistic Databases, Proceedings of the EMELD ’06 Workshop on Digital Language Documentation: Tools and Standards: The State of the Art

    Published on: Jul 20, 2006

Interests

Interests

  • Unix/Linux

    FreeBSDUbuntu

  • Teaching

    Computer ProgrammingCloud Computing

  • Running

    New York City Marathon