Stu Penrose
Principal, Consultant at AppFoo - appfoo.io
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorStu Penrose is a principal consultant and product-focused engineering leader with 16 years of experience accelerating roadmap delivery, reshaping developer and customer experiences, and de-risking complex technical acquisitions. He has driven dramatic outcomes—reducing costs up to 75% and increasing development velocity up to 700%—by aligning architecture, processes and talent across startups, PE/Venture-backed firms and enterprises. At CJ Affiliate he brought predictable release cadence and developer experience standards that enabled a 500% jump in successful launches and supported the company’s acquisition by Publicis. Stu combines hands-on delivery (from mobile SDKs and APIs to hardware-adjacent products) with executive diligence work, having supported due diligence for $500M+ transactions. Based in Los Angeles, he also packages his operational playbook into the AppFoo toolset to help teams replicate rapid innovation and release predictability.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (26)
jshint10
java9
perforce9
maven-plugin9
api9
mojo9
mechanism9
maven9
javascript8
testing7
rest7
qunit7
reactive-kafka7
version-control7
control-systems7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
httpobjects-org/httpobjects
Aug 2019 - Mar 2025
[httpobjects] is a watertight API for speaking http(s)
Contributions:1 PR, 66 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
apispeaking
cjdev2/rest-specs
Jan 2013 - Jun 2015
A test-friendly mechanism for expressing RESTful http contracts
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
mechanismtestingrestfulapi-testingrest
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