Scott Penberthy

Current

• CEO at North Highland Partners

Past

• CIO at Gilt Groupe
• CTO at Heavy, Inc.
• VP Engineering at Photobucket

5 more...

Education

• University of Washington
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recommended

23 people have recommended Scott

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Scott Penberthy’s Summary

We build apps.

My teams dwell in media-rich applications for the iPhone and Web. We use cloud platforms to handle tremendous, dynamic loads from millions of avid consumers.

We believe in agile development, where results can be seen in the very first week of an engagement, optimizing the transformation of capital into working code.

We utilize open source and follow the mantra of authenticity, transparency, and involvement with elegant, crisp design.

I've personally led engineering teams for an online video destination site with 5M consumers, an online photo sharing site with 50M consumers, an invitation-only e-commerce company with 1M members, and world famous sporting events at IBM.

Scott Penberthy’s Specialties:

Getting stuff done. iPhone (Cocoa Touch, OpenGL), Flash (ActionScript 3, Flash 9 & 10), and open source stacks on Amazon (LAMP and Rails). Java 1.6 if we have to, no EJBs.

Additional Information

Scott Penberthy’s Interests:

iPhone, Flash and Social apps that run in the cloud. Practical agile software development. Everything Apple and open source.

Scott Penberthy’s Groups:

Apple iPhone Publisher, IEEE

•    Pi Lambda Phi
•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    Ruby on Rails
•    University of Washington Alumni Group
•    Open Source Universe
•    Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders
•    NYC.rb
•    MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni
•    New York PHP Community
•    CloudCamp - Unconventional Cloud Computing
•    Cloud Hosting & Service Providers Forum
•    Social Entertainment Professionals

Scott Penberthy’s Honors:

Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Executive, 2008
IBM Chairman's Award for Outstanding Teamwork, IBM WebExplorer, 1995
IBM Chairmans' Award for Outstanding Teamwork, IBM Olympics, 1997
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award
American Academy of Achievement "Golden Plate" Award
Westinghouse Science Talent Search National Winner, "Starship" multi-player online game
Virginia Science Talent Search Top Winner
ACM Programming Contest National Winner
MIT Navy Scholarship
IBM Resident Study Scholarship