Kris Penney
Senior Software Developer (Collection Platform)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKris Penney is a seasoned senior software developer with 11 years of experience building resilient, payments and money-infrastructure systems for high-scale merchants. Currently leading collection platform work at Flare after senior engineering roles at Cash App and multiple teams at Shopify, he specializes in fault-tolerant transaction systems and operational automation that reduce support debt. He holds a rare BBA/CS double degree from Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier, combining technical depth with product and finance sensibilities that inform pragmatic system design. Kris’s career includes early work automating merchant balance recovery and implementing resiliency in financial transactions—an under-the-hood impact that improved uptime and customer experience. Based in Montreal, he brings a track record of shipping reliable back-end services in fintech contexts and translating complex business requirements into robust production systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Business Administration; Finance Option, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Business Administration; Finance Option at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityParis District High SchoolBachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Computer Science; Software Engineering Option, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS) Computer Science; Software Engineering Option at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (101)
react-redux10
simulate10
alarm10
hotel-booking10
checker10
redux10
shopify-api9
chaos9
procfile9
testing9
proxy9
kotlin9
alertview9
polaris9
tcp9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
krispenney/krispenney.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jan 2022
Personal Website V3
Contributions:3 PRs, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
reactjavascriptcss3html5jekyll
krispenney/goose-watch-2
Aug 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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