Jonathan T Penny

Engineering Manager at Twilio
 Founder at Socialhood

Ex-Google | Ex-Wayfair | Engineering leader with experience in multiple high-growth INC-500 companies | MBA Graduate - concentrations in strategic leadership and entrepreneurship | AWS Certified | Experience launching Devops, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and SRE Best Practices in multiple organizations

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Application Development 21 Years
Devops 18 Years
Leadership 15 Years

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  • Engineering Manager At Twilio

    • I lead a team of engineers focused on migrating from a data center to AWS

  • MBA Graduate At University of Illinois

    • Focus on Strategic Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Innovation
    • Partnered with medical and engineering students to produce GTM plan for new medical device.

  • Engineering Manager At Google

    • I led a team of engineers focused on improving developer velocity in the testing space.

  • Senior Engineering Manager At Wayfair

    • I lead a team of engineers building building an event driven platform for finance engineering using technology including Python and Kafka.
    • In 2021, my team implemented software updates that are predicted to drive more than $200M in additional yearly profit for the company. We anticipate as much or more impact in 2022.
    • In 2022, my team built an event based platform to decouple functions from a legacy monolith in anticipation of a migration to SAP. We anticipate this project will save up to 50% of implementation time and costs in the SAP migration.

  • Devops Leader At QsrSoft

    • Led a devops team that architected and scaled AWS infrastructure to analyze streaming data from 14,000 US McDonalds restaurants, peaking at 500 tps.
    • Drove major initiatives including move to infrastructure as code, CI/CD, agile SDLC, migration from SVN to github, and migration from home grown ticketing to Jira.
    • Led migration of several EOL applications from on premise to AWS and realized several $M in additional revenue from extending the applications' lifespans

  • Director of Technology At myFootpath

    myFootpath
    • Reported to the CEO and managed all technology for a company with > $10M in revenue.
    • Architected and led a team of engineers to build a new product that enabled the business to completely pivot its business model, exiting a dying call center model, and moving to a new self-service model with high touch assistance from employees when needed.
    • I left the business more profitable and sustainable by automating infrastructure and reducing complexity- reducing technical headcount from 7 to 1.

  • CTO/Founder At Socialhood

    Socialhood
    • I founded Socialhood, a Social Network for the neighborhood. I architected the original concept and led a distributed team that built out the application.

  • Founder At Pennywell Voice

    Pennywell Voice
    • Developed a web based PBX Frontend to Asterisk.
    • Integrated with Authorize.net CIM and Vitelity as a reseller portal for SIP DIDs, origination, and termination.

  • Director of Engineering, Infrastructure At Working Persons Store

    Working Persons Store
    • Created comprehensive technology strategy for INC 500 company with $10M in revenue- consolidated vendors and equipment types, migrated telephony to VOIP, implemented ticketing for technical support and managed the technical aspects of moving a call center.

  • Co-Founder/CTO At BOOK'M Used Books

    BOOK'M Used Books
    • Co-Launched Brick and Mortar Book Store
    • Launched custom OsCommerce website
    • Integrated with Amazon, Abebooks, and other third party vendors
    • Customized and integrated with Microsoft POS Application

  • B.A. Psychology At Concordia University Chicago

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