Boyd Parkinson

Boyd Parkinson has over 30 years of work experience, with diverse roles in software engineering and development. Starting in 1989, they worked as a Developer at Eyring Research Institute. From 1992 to 1997, they served as a Sr. Software Engineer at WordPerfect Corp. Their time at Intel from 1997 to 2001 involved creating and maintaining the LanDesk Client manager, a web interface client-server application. At AccessData from 2004 to 2012, Boyd worked as a Sr. Software Engineer, maintaining legacy Forensic Toolkit products and developing new functionality for both old and new versions. From 2013 to 2016, at Blue Coat Systems, they served as a Sr. Staff Software Engineer, developing statistics collection and retrieval databases and APIs for CAS. Boyd also maintained the ProxyAV legacy C++ windows application. At FamilySearch.com from 2016 to 2017, Boyd worked as a Senior Software Engineer, developing a standalone app for managing photos and camera control for archiving historical records. Boyd fixed bugs and added enhancements to the DCAM product. Currently, Boyd is appointed as a Senior Integration Engineer at Ready Computing from 2022.

Boyd Parkinson attended Brigham Young University from 1984 to 1989, where they studied Computer Science. Boyd did not obtain a specific degree during this period. In 2018, Boyd obtained a certification as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate from Amazon Web Services.