Perrin Westrich
CTO at Decide
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPerrin Westrich is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 15 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping complex distributed systems from Missouri. At Decide he builds across the full stack—reactive frameworks, transactional distributed and time-series databases, batch processing, compilers, and analytics—bringing deep systems and data expertise to product problems. He progressed from developer to CTO at the same company, demonstrating rare continuity in turning ambitious architecture into production reality. Perrin also serves as a Fractional CTO for LaunchCode, supporting free education and job placement, reflecting a commitment to mentoring the next generation of engineers. Colleagues describe his engineering approach as orchestral: coordinating many moving parts to create reliable, elegant systems.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, BS, Computer Science and Mathematics at Webster University
Github Skills (43)
animation10
python9
editing9
coders8
nodejs7
math7
mootools7
google-sheets7
collaborative-editing7
react7
google6
typescript6
redis-client6
redis6
plugin6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
CrypticSwarm/vimrc
Jun 2011 - Apr 2022
Contributions:115 commits, 32 pushes in 10 years 11 months
CrypticSwarm/suggest-it
Sep 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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