Mechanical engineer, educator, and roboticist. Parker studied in Boston where he became involved in the maker movement, conducting research on maker curriculums at the Developmental Technologies Lab at Tufts University, Scratch Jr. at the MIT Media Lab, the Cambridge Friends School Makerspace, and The Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop. He has worked as a roboticist at the Harvard iLab developing soft robotic grippers, and as a hardware designer at the start-up incubator Greentown Labs. Parker is a graduate of the IALab and has publicly exhibited his thesis project in London, Chicago, and Prague.