Apolo Pena
Senior Software Engineer at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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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 (184)
npm-package10
lamp10
visual-studio10
disposable10
theia10
jetbrains10
javascript10
provisioning10
laravel10
editor10
code-review10
scroll-lock10
compiler10
gatsby10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apolopena/devzen
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
This project is to provide the service of organizing YouTube videos to focus on web development and cut out the noise, allowing web devs to focus on learning new skills, sharpening their current skill stack, and readily get to the resources the providers want you to have.
Contributions:61 PRs, 68 pushes, 25 branches in 1 month
cssjavascriptvideosproviderscut
apolopena/gitpod-laravel-starter
Jan 2021 - Mar 2022
Configurable LAMP or LEMP stack starter project powered by Laravel and Gitpod. Supports Laravel 6, 7, and 8. Out of the box support for React, Vue, and Bootstrap frontends, with or without built-in auth .
Contributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 598 commits in 1 year 2 months
nginxfrontendsvue-reactvuereactjs
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