Jon Penland

Hi, my name is Jon. I'm COO at Kinsta.

Connect

I'm not looking for opportunities at this time but I'd be glad to connect on social media and talk about volunteer or contribution opportunities that align with my interests.

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Professional experience

• Kinsta COO | July 2018 - Present
• Kinsta Head of Sales & Support | June 2017 - June 2018
• Kinsta Support Engineer | December 2016 - June 2017
• Freelancer Writer & WordPress Website Developer | May 2014 - December 2016
• Various prior roles in sales, sales management, construction, social work, and retail | May 2004 - May 2014

Education

• Various online courses completed at Treehouse, Udemy, Javascript for WP, and Linux Academy
• MBA | Georgia Southern University | August 2011
• BA | Toccoa Falls College | May 2004

Skills

I have extensive experience recruiting and managing remote sales, support, and customer service teams. I am also good at developing and implementing operating procedures, policies, and workflows, and managing sales, support, and customer service operations.

I consider myself to be a junior full-stack web developer. I have experience working with WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and LEMP stacks (Ubuntu, nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL/MariaDB). I've also studied or interacted with git, Linux containers, and Google Cloud.

In a prior life I was a pretty damn good centrifugal pump salesman in the municipal pump market.

Personal interests

Spending an unplanned day exploring out in nature with my family is my absolute favorite thing to do. I'm interested in science, business, and living well, and I read books on those topics as time allows. I love to travel and see new places. I'm also a big fan of leveraging technology to make work better for people.