Emory Penney
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmory Penney is a seasoned software engineer and technical lead with roots in IT support and nearly two decades of hands-on experience building everything from small office networks to complex multi-geo business infrastructures. He specializes in automation and CI/CD tooling—Jenkins, Git/Gerrit—and is fluent across *nix, Perl, Java, LAMP stacks, Windows/VMware and Active Directory. Emory has led SCM and legacy build-system rewrites with minimal disruption, balancing elegant, cost-effective custom solutions with practical project delivery in Agile/SCRUM environments. An active open-source contributor and self-described “automation nerd,” he has enhanced Home Assistant’s Obihai integration by adding DHCP discovery, reboot controls, tests, and configuration flows to improve real-world setup and reliability. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, he combines customer-facing training and product design with cross-geo team leadership to turn complex requirements into maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
Oregon State University
Github Skills (15)
iot10
home-assistant10
configurations10
python10
configuration-file10
asyncio10
testing9
mqtt8
mqttnet8
home-automation8
networking7
api-rest6
rest-api6
api-design6
restful-api6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 2 commits, 10 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Emory primarily contributed to the Home Assistant core by implementing and fixing the Obihai integration. Their work involved creating a configuration flow for the Obihai device, including tests, and refactoring code. They added a button for rebooting the device and integrated DHCP discovery for easier setup. The user's contributions centered around enhancing the integration's functionality and improving the user experience.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
ejpenney/repository-permissions-updater
Sep 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
artifactorysynchronizationdata-setsecuritypermissions
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