Jon Penland
Chief Executive Officer at Kinsta®
Demorest, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Penland is a growth-oriented CEO with 11 years of experience scaling Kinsta from support engineer to chief executive, leading product expansion and a global team focused on premium cloud hosting and managed WordPress solutions. He previously served as COO, where he aligned execution with strategy, built high-performing teams, and emphasized customer experience, integrity, and accountability. Jon blends practical, data-driven leadership with decisive action, preferring measurable outcomes and honest collaboration over theory. Based in Demorest, Georgia, he pairs an MBA with hands-on sales and support roots, which gives him rare operational empathy for both customers and engineers. Under his leadership Kinsta has broadened its PaaS and developer offerings while maintaining a company culture intended to make growth sustainable and rewarding.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Master of Business Administration, MBA Master of Business Administration at Georgia Southern UniversityBA Business Administration, BA Business Administration at Toccoa Falls College
Spanish
Github Skills (16)
plugin8
wordpress-plugin8
wordpress7
php6
traffic6
react6
jetpack5
js5
security4
marketing4
management1
open-source1
kanban1
internet1
collaboration1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jpen365/five-hacks-for-twenty-seventeen
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 9 commits, 8 pushes in 10 months
jpen365/simple-blog-theme
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:34 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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