Jonathan T Penny
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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SeniorJonathan Penny is a seasoned engineering leader specializing in data center and Kubernetes administration, currently directing teams at Twilio responsible for 10,000 nodes across six data centers and for Kubernetes clusters spanning US and Europe, supporting Sendgrid's scale of 148+ billion emails per month in 2023. Previously at Google, he built and launched a reliability-focused platform that gates Google search releases, driving a $100–$200M outage impact prevention and broad cross-team adoption. He has held senior engineering leadership roles at Wayfair and earlier founded and led startups including Socialhood, giving him a rare blend of startup agility and enterprise scale. He is an active Forbes Technology Council member and contributor, connecting practitioner insights with industry strategy. He holds an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA from Concordia University Chicago, pairing business acumen with technical depth. Based in Chicago, Jonathan combines hands-on technical excellence with strategic vision to scale infrastructure, reliability, and collaboration across distributed teams.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (26)
aws8
amazon7
sdk7
angular-js7
php6
swagger6
beego5
ldap-auth5
automation5
aws-sdk5
vuejs24
vue-js4
golang4
laravel4
go3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jtpenny/amplify-vue-journal
May 2019 - May 2020
A Vue.js starter app integrated with AWS Amplify
Contributions:18 commits, 10 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year
vue-jsintegratedvuejs2vuevuetify
jtpenny/twilio
Mar 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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