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Terrence Penner

@terrencepenner

I build Go control planes and resilient Kubernetes infrastructure for distributed platforms.

At Stripe, I owned and evolved Go-based infrastructure control-plane services that turn application and platform configuration into resources across Kubernetes environments. I instrumented 12 control-plane services with OpenTelemetry, reducing average production debugging time by 40%.

Previously at Cloudflare, I built multi-region configuration distribution, Kafka and NATS workflows, and scalable Go services using gRPC, REST, and PostgreSQL. I also led incident investigations and designed recovery mechanisms that kept regions operating through network and control-plane disruptions.

My foundation at Dell Technologies includes Linux backend services, asynchronous infrastructure workflows, PostgreSQL state management, and AWS operations. I enjoy taking systems from API and data-model design through deployment, failure recovery, and long-term production support.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Stripe

Mar 2022 - Jul 2026 (4 years 4 months)

At Stripe, I work as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. My main focus is building and improving backend infrastructure services using Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, and cloud technologies.
A big part of my work is around control-plane systems. We take application or platform configuration and turn that into real Kubernetes resources.

Backend & Platform Engineer

Cloudflare

Oct 2017 - Feb 2022 (4 years 4 months)

At Cloudflare, I worked as a Backend and Platform Engineer. My main focus was building distributed backend and control-plane services using Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, NATS, and gRPC.
One of my main responsibilities was distributing configuration safely across multiple regions.