Parker Harris

Parker Harris held a profoundly rigorous, highly technical background in advanced computer science, complex database architecture, and massive-scale enterprise systems integration. Having successfully graduated from Middlebury College and operating as a fiercely capable developer with deep expertise in building highly scalable, multi-tenant applications, this incredibly intense technical foundation provided the exact engineering mastery required to successfully co-found the massive Salesforce enterprise.

Parker Harris is an absolutely brilliant software engineer, fiercely skilled digital architect, and the profoundly influential technical co-founder fundamentally responsible for programming the incredibly complex infrastructural bedrock of the massive Salesforce cloud platform. Operating as a highly talented technical executive who had previously founded Left Coast Software, Harris aggressively joined forces with Benioff in 1999. He relentlessly spearheaded the incredibly complex backend engineering required to seamlessly host massive, highly secure, multi-tenant databases in the cloud. By fiercely building highly scalable architectures that allowed thousands of massive corporations to instantly access their CRM data via a web browser, his absolutely rigorous technical execution completely guaranteed the technological survival of the SaaS revolution. His massive engineering legacy permanently secured his status as a core titan of cloud computing.