Paul Pettengill
Senior Software Engineer at Verbal Commits
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Pettengill is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on development experience and a background as a product management executive in enterprise software. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, SQL, systems implementations and analytics, and brings deep domain expertise in managed markets for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotech. At SimplyInsured he engineers scalable product features while drawing on prior engineering roles at companies like 500friends and Le Tote and his founder experience at Verbal Commits. His career uniquely blends strategic product leadership—directing contract analytics and price optimization—with day-to-day coding, making him adept at turning complex industry requirements into pragmatic, production-ready systems. Known for a pragmatic, mission-driven approach (“making the world a better place one line of code at a time”), he pairs technical craft with industry-savvy insights to deliver measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at North Carolina State UniversityAppalachian State UniversityAlt-MBA, Alt-MBA at Alt-MBA
Stackoverflow
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ruby-on-rails
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migration
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heroku
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Github Skills (111)
caller10
sublime-text9
heroku9
ruby-on-rails9
migration9
class-method9
binding9
detector9
mri8
authentication8
parsing8
typescript8
ruby7
editor7
hook7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
500friends/name_drop
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 11 commits, 35 PRs in 1 month
ruby-wrapperapirubyruby-api-wrapperruby-api
prpetten/binding_of_caller
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Retrieve the binding of a method's caller in MRI 1.9.2+
Contributions:9 pushes, 6 branches, 1 tag in 1 month
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