Brian Pennington

Full Stack Developer, Frontend Specialist

A driven developer who is passionate about exploration, learning, and creating intuitive user experiences through technology to solve real problems.

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Raising All Boats

When others do well, I do well. I love learning and teaching others the fruits of that labor.

I feel that creating institutionalized knowledge is one of the most effective ways to build great teams.

Explore & Experiment

If I'm interested in something, I am deeply driven to understand that something.

Experimentation, writing, and collaboration make up the basis for how I discover real needs and solutions.

UX Driven Development

I believe creating intuitive interfaces and maximizing utility for users starts with making UX, accessibility, and performance the foundations of the development process.

The Winning Team

I'm a big believer in creating and working with small, self-organized, cross-functional teams.

This includes business stakeholders as first-class members to represent the business' needs and goals.

Feedback

Proponent of creating feedback mechanisms throughout the product value pipeline, including product, design, and support teams -- and of course, the end users.

This is required to ensure the product that gets built is the product the business wants, and is the product the users need.

DX and Automation

Create and utilize great tooling to automate all the repetitive stuff, including CI/CD pipelines and utility/ui-kit libraries to save developers from writing the same code over and over (usually in slightly different ways).

These tools should be treated as internal products that should meet the same standards as the business' products.