Apolo Pena
Senior Software Engineer at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolApolo Pena is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with seven years of focused full-stack experience and a long history of front-end and tooling work dating back to the Flash era. He builds customer‑focused, high‑volume solutions with a calm, practical approach and adapts quickly to new stacks and workflows. His background spans game and ad tech (Kabam, RockYou, PLAYSTUDIOS) through to independent consulting, giving him strong skills in JavaScript, Python, and legacy-to-modern migrations. Outside engineering he has run and taught at an Ashtanga yoga studio, reflecting disciplined leadership and studio operations experience that informs his people-first approach. He brings a mix of hands-on implementation, release/process improvement, and product-minded engineering to projects that need reliable delivery.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
San Francisco State UniversityTraining Program, Intermedia/Multimedia, Training Program, Intermedia/Multimedia at OpnetComputer Science classes, Computer Science classes at City College of San Francisco
Spanish
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Github Skills (169)
quokkajs10
npm-package10
security10
lamp10
disposable10
theia10
auth10
jetbrains10
provisioning10
laravel10
editor10
code-review10
scroll-lock10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apolopena/gls-tools
Feb 2022 - Apr 2022
Bash scripted command line tool to update gitpod-laravel-starter to the latest version
Contributions:7 releases, 242 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
bashcommand-line-toolgitpodlaravel
apolopena/express-react-starter
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
A full stack express/react starting point. Implements express, react, mysql, mocha and supertest.
Contributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 80 pushes in 6 months
full-stackmysqlreactsupertest
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