Nicholas Penree
Founder, Head Of Software Development at ADK Interactive, LLC
New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarNicholas Penree is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 14 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across e-commerce, web services, retail merchandising, and supply chain systems. Based in New York, he blends hands-on JavaScript (and occasional Go) development with executive-level digital technology leadership, currently heading software at ADK Interactive while serving as Senior Director of Digital Technology. His career spans startup co-founding to senior roles at Trans World Entertainment and FYE, where he scaled product and engineering efforts for retail digital transformation. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved core tooling like the widely used Kue job queue and expanded capabilities in projects such as Tidbyt’s pixlet, showing a knack for both backend stability and developer-facing UX. Known for translating complex retail requirements into reliable, production-ready systems, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with deep technical craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
back-end-development10
redis10
starlark10
go10
golang10
nodejs10
backend10
job-queue10
javascript9
url-encoding9
expressjs8
websocket7
front-end-development7
websockets-client7
websocket-client7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tidbyt/pixlet
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Build apps for pixel-based displays ✨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 3 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to the `pixlet` repository by adding new features and expanding the capabilities of the project. These contributions include the integration of new starlark modules for html, hash, and csv handling. Additionally, the user implemented url encoding and decoding within the humanize module and enhanced UI components, improving devtools functionality. The user also addressed security aspects by implementing SSL support.
golangled-displaydisplaysstarlarkpixel
Automattic/kue
Mar 2013 - Jul 2013
Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on improving the functionality and stability of the Kue job queue system. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to job polling and delayed job promotion, and updating job timestamps to reflect state changes. The user also made modifications to the UI and overall application structure. The user's changes touched several core files, directly affecting the job queue's behavior and user interface.
redisnode-jsjob-queuekuejob
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