Ted Pennings
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTed Pennings is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building user-focused web applications and data visualizations, currently contributing to Netflix after senior engineering leadership at Lightstep and InVision. He brings strong front-end skills in React and JavaScript coupled with a pragmatic appreciation for UX and dataviz, and a history of shaping observability and performance tooling at scale. Ted pairs hands-on implementation with test automation experience—his GitHub contributions include extensive Homebrew formula tests that improved package reliability for widely used CLI tools. Based in Portland, he blends product-minded engineering with mentorship and cross-team collaboration, and his background spans both enterprise and high-growth product environments.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzUniversity of ChicagoMS, MS at Boston University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
homebrew10
shell8
sh8
script8
scripting8
lisp6
clojure6
api6
mocking6
spring-mvc6
java6
unit-testing6
twitter6
primes6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Nov 2013 - Nov 2014
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:32 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ted's contributions primarily revolve around adding tests to various Homebrew formulae. They added tests for programs like `youtube-dl`, `maven`, `md5sha1sum`, `nmap`, `openssl`, `dos2unix`, `tree`, `pwgen`, `ant`, `lynx`, `gawk`, `redis`, `mongodb`, `scala`, `chicken`, `yajl`, `ghc`, `plt-racket`, `emacs`, `postgresql`, and `postgis`. The user consistently focused on ensuring the functionality of different utilities and applications through the creation of new tests. Their work significantly enhances the reliability and quality assurance of the Homebrew package management system.
macoshomebrew
tedpennings/newrelic-wordpress-insights
Oct 2014 - May 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 6 years 8 months
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