Pennell Pennell
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPennell Pennell is a seasoned technical support and community engineering professional with eight years of experience helping developer-focused platforms scale their support and feedback loops. Based in San Francisco, they have driven enterprise support at Sanity while building internal tooling, documentation, and analytics that turned community signals into product improvements. Pennell excels at bridging users and engineering—escalating complex incidents, shaping support processes for efficiency, and collaborating with frontend developers to solve implementation challenges. Earlier roles in operations and project management sharpened their data-driven approach to recruitment, workflows, and cross-functional coordination. They pair a creative background in architecture and writing with hands-on product empathy, making them adept at translating user stories into actionable technical changes. Outside work they bring a playful, multidisciplinary energy (⌨️🏋️☕️🎮🎸) that surfaces in both community engagement and practical problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Architecture, Architecture at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Creative Writing and English Education, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Creative Writing and English Education at California State University-Chico
English
Github Skills (21)
cms10
structured-content10
realtime10
workspaces10
sanity-io10
react10
sanity10
skynet9
team-ecosystem9
community-management8
surface7
editing6
drag5
nextjs5
typescript-react4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
plsrd/studioDaddy
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:60 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
rlpennell/hark
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:95 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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