Rebecca Parsons
Chief Technology Officer
ThoughtWorks
Dr. Rebecca Parsons is ThoughtWorks’ Chief Technology Officer. She has more years’ application development experience than she cares to admit. She has extensive experience leading in the creation of large-scale applications, services based applications and advising architecture teams.
Before coming to ThoughtWorks she worked as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida where she taught courses in compilers, program optimization, distributed computation, programming languages, theory of computation, machine learning and computational biology. She also worked as Director’s Post Doctoral Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory researching issues in parallel and distributed computation, genetic algorithms, computational biology and non-linear dynamical systems.
Rebecca received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Economics from Bradley University, a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Rice University and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University.
Talks I've Given
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Evolutionary Architecture: Principles and Patterns
Featuring Rebecca Parsons
Evolutionary Architecture is a natural culmination of both the maturing of Agile software development and the increasing role of patterns in architecture. This talk describes the evolution of evolutionary architecture, focusing on the integration of these principles into enterprise systems.
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The Past and Future of Evolutionary Architecture
Featuring Rebecca Parsons
Evolutionary Architecture is rapidly becoming seen as the responsible approach to technology rather than some crazy idea that leads to chaos and despair. This talk follows the evolutionary path of Evolutionary Architecture first. We’ll then try to see where such ideas might lead us in the...
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The CTO is Dead: Long Live the CTO
Featuring Rebecca Parsons
The role of the CTO is changing and the skills needed to succeed as a CTO are also changing. As technology continues to invade deeper into more and more organizations, technology savvy and expertise become increasingly important in the C-suite. In the past traditional organizations didn’t...
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The Past and Future of Evolutionary Architecture
Featuring Rebecca Parsons
Evolutionary Architecture is rapidly becoming seen as the responsible approach to technology rather than some crazy idea that leads to chaos and despair. This talk follows the evolutionary path of Evolutionary Architecture first. We’ll then try to see where such ideas might lead us in the...
architecture-&-design -
The Past and Future of Evolutionary Architecture
Featuring Rebecca Parsons
Evolutionary Architecture is rapidly becoming seen as the responsible approach to technology rather than some crazy idea that leads to chaos and despair. This talk follows the evolutionary path of Evolutionary Architecture first. We’ll then try to see where such ideas might lead us in the...
architecture-&-design -
The CTO is Dead: Long Live the CTO
Featuring Rebecca Parsons
The role of the CTO is changing and the skills needed to succeed as a CTO are also changing. As technology continues to invade deeper into more and more organizations, technology savvy and expertise become increasingly important in the C-suite. In the past traditional organizations didn’t...
culture
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