Index No. 001
Updated May 2026
Located Oakland, CA
Parker Tikson

Bridging technology and infrastructure, from rapid-delivery systems to the grid.

A decade of product and program leadership at Amazon. Recently completed a Master's in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Berkeley, focused on energy systems, grid flexibility, and climate-resilient infrastructure.

Open to roles

in clean-energy strategy, utility analytics, and climate policy research.

§ About

A quick readThe longer version lives elsewhere

I came to energy policy the long way around — through a bachelor's that taught me how to ask why a system works the way it does, and a master's that taught me how to measure when it isn't.

What pulls me back to this work is the sense that the grid is becoming legible in ways it never used to be. The data is there. The models are there. The willingness to act on them is what's still being negotiated.

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