John Pennington
Head Of Engineering at Amplifier Security
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Pennington is a seasoned technology executive with 11 years in senior engineering leadership and two decades of hands-on product and architecture experience, now leading Amplifier Security as Head of Engineering. He has a strong track record scaling SaaS businesses through technical rigor, M&A diligence and post-acquisition integration, having run global R&D organizations and P&L-backed teams at Bullhorn and TRUX. John blends product-focused innovation—creating AI research groups, Data-as-a-Service initiatives and platform re‑architectures—with operational discipline in DevOps, FinOps and security maturity programs. He mentors and builds high-performing teams across distributed sites, turning early prototypes into MVPs and multi-million-dollar ARR product lines. A designer by training, he brings a practiced eye for UX and system composability, evidenced by earlier work on dynamic application composition and rule engines that materially increased product value through acquisition. Based in Missouri, he combines pragmatism and empathy to drive user-focused, automatable solutions in complex enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts Graphic Design at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (23)
platform-sdk10
apply10
sdk10
aurelia-framework9
object-model9
aurelia8
api8
javascript7
java7
rest7
html7
rest-api7
typescript6
cross-platform6
csv-import4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
binary-arts/Systemic
May 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:62 pushes, 4 branches, 4 issues in 1 year 3 months
john-pennington/framework
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 5 branches in 25 days
aureliaaurelia-frameworkframeworkdependency-injectiongo-application
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