Summary
Randy Pensinger is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and data-driven services, currently shipping software at MediaAlpha in Portland. His career spans startups and analytics firms—Porch, Opera Solutions, Gaikai, and SpeedTax—where he focused on core backend development, CI, data aggregation and migration integrity while owning on-call reliability. A Stanford CS graduate who likes to "write software and think hard," he combines fast-moving, holistic engineering with mentoring and project organization in VCS-driven teams. Colleagues rely on him for troubleshooting tricky production issues and improving developer workflows, a skill set sharpened by frequent pager-duty experience. Despite a focus on robust systems, he retains a curiosity for deep technical thinking and long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Stanford University
English