About Parker Landon and Cordial Forge.

An intentionally small practice

I work directly with organizations from the initial problem through discovery, implementation, and launch. Keeping the practice small means the person understanding your workflow is also the person defining and building the software.

I start by assessing whether custom software is the right answer. An existing product or a process improvement may serve the work better. When a build is appropriate, every custom software engagement begins with paid discovery to define the right solution and clear scope, followed by a proposal for build and maintenance.

A little background

By day, I’m a Full Stack Software Engineer at Superhuman (formerly Grammarly), where I build features for custom agents and the developer platform on Superhuman Go.

I studied Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Seattle Pacific University, along with Data Analytics and the University Honors program.

Why education matters to me

Educators have shaped how I think and what I care about—from my mom and girlfriend to the teachers and professors who helped me find my direction. That connection carries into the software I build.

At SPU, I built a classroom participation application for professors, integrating with Canvas LMS to sync course and student participation data. The project showed me how much I enjoy building focused tools for education.

I’m especially interested in working directly with educators at schools and universities to understand their workflows and build software that makes their everyday work easier.

I like turning messy problems into clear software.

I enjoy sitting down with domain experts, understanding their workflows, breaking the problem into clear requirements, and figuring out what software is actually worth building.

My goal is to understand the problem well enough to deliver the right solution.

Engineer by profession. Builder by nature.

My work has taken me across frontend development, backend systems, databases, APIs, infrastructure, testing, and cloud architecture. I’ve worked on large production systems used by many people, but I still love the immediacy of taking a smaller idea from a blank repository to something real that people can use.

That curiosity spills into my personal projects, too. I’ve built everything from web applications to developer tools and even my own small programming language. I write about what I learn along the way.

How I work

I value clarity, craftsmanship, and skin in the game.

That means understanding the problem before jumping to a solution, communicating clearly about tradeoffs, keeping scope understandable, and taking responsibility for the software I deliver.

I’m comfortable moving between product thinking and implementation. I can talk through a workflow with a stakeholder, turn it into a concrete product specification, and then build the system behind it.

That combination lets me take a project from an ambiguous problem to working software.

Outside of work

I’m endlessly curious about software and technology, but I try not to make computers my entire personality.

When I’m not programming, you’ll usually find me enjoying Seattle food and coffee, attending small concerts, playing games with friends, traveling, cooking, or reading good fiction.

Let’s build something useful.

If your organization has a problem that feels like it should have a better software solution, I’d be interested in hearing about it.