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Michael Parker a mobile developer at Khan Academy, where he works on providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Previously he was the lead developer on Burner at Ad Hoc Labs. There he developed the Android application, which got some nice press, and productionised the backend, where he increased test coverage from 0 to over 90%. Before that, he co-founded ReadyUp!, worked for almost five years at Google on enterprise search and Google Docs, and earned a BS and MS in computer science from UCLA.

He's also a founding volunteer of Project:Possibility, through which he's mentored hundreds of college students writing software to improve the lives of the physically disabled.

He pushes code to https://github.com/mgp/, blogs at http://omgitsmgp.com/, and thinks out loud at https://twitter.com/omgitsmgp.