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Tommy Penner

Tommy Penner

Senior Support Engineer

Metro Detroit, MI, Michigan, US
+1 (586) 770-1839

Background


About

About

Senior Support Engineer specializing in developer tooling, REST APIs, and SaaS platforms. 14+ years of experience resolving complex technical problems for enterprise customers, driving engineering escalations to root cause, and building the internal tooling and processes that keep support operations running. Equally comfortable working in a ticket queue, updating a Postman collection, or running a curl command.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Support Engineer, ReadMe

    Jun, 2021 - Nov, 20254 years 5 months

    • Coordinated Product, Engineering, Success, and Support to migrate Enterprise customer content to ReadMe's new Git-powered platform; prevented churn of 100 Enterprise customers previously marked "At Risk".

    • Managed a nine-person international QA contractor team across three time zones from pre-launch through general availability of ReadMe's Git-powered platform, identifying issues that would have caused content loss or corruption for migrating Enterprise customers.

    • Managed day-to-day contractor support operations, maintaining SLA response times under 30 minutes and team CSAT consistently above 95%.

    • Embedded with Engineering as sole billing SME during Stripe rollout; shaped implementation decisions, managed customer impact from dormant account charges, and recovered $250K+ in uncollected revenue within a single quarter.

    • Built asynchronous onboarding resources using Loom, Notion, and ReadMe, bringing new agents to full competency within three weeks.

    • Authored user-facing documentation for product features and launches across ReadMe's entire platform, covering API reference, configuration, and end-user workflows.

    • Diagnosed and resolved complex issues in user-generated OpenAPI/Swagger, Markdown, MDX, and GitHub Actions; escalated systemic problems to Engineering and Product after exhausting triage options.

    • Trained contractors on troubleshooting standards and escalation paths, establishing consistent support quality across a globally distributed team.

  • Developer Support Manager, Vimeo

    Sep, 2017 - Jun, 20213 years 9 months