Stu Penrose
Chief Technology Officer at Locust
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 (17)
jshint10
perforce9
maven-plugin9
http9
qunit9
refactoring8
reactive-kafka8
javascript8
rest7
version-control7
restful6
api4
markdown3
reveal-js2
macos2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cjdev2/jshint-mojo
Aug 2012 - Mar 2015
A simple, speedy maven plugin for running javascript code through jshint
Contributions:63 commits, 6 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 6 months
javascriptjshintmaven-plugin
cjdev2/httpobjects
Apr 2012 - Aug 2019
a watertight API for speaking http
Contributions:138 commits, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 7 years 5 months
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