Percy Wegmann

About Percy Wegmann

Nearly 25 years professional software development experience as consultant, developer, team lead and executive- Most recently worked on and then helped lead a team that built a censorship circumvention VPN with more than 10 million Monthly Active Users and a 4.4 star Google Play rating, touching on all aspects of development including UI, custom VPN servers, obfuscated protocols, cloud infrastructure management, finance, data analytics, operations and customer support- Experience leading teams of up to dozens of software developers- Early adopter and code contributor to the Go programming language- Deep experience with a broad range of popular programming languages and relational databases- Published authority in the censorship circumvention space- Broad industry experience including telecommunications, government, healthcare, network security, finance and cryptocurrencies- Hands-on, from-the-front leadership style- User-focused and results oriented approach

Experience

1. Member of Technical Staff

   Tailscale

   Nov 2023 — Present

Education

• University of Chicago

  B.A., Economics, Political Science (International Relations)

  1996 — 2000

• Texas State University

  Certificate in Mediation, Mediation

  2011 — 2011

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Engineering
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Xml
• Rest
• Orm
• Software Development
• Python
• Analytics
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Integration
• .net
• Architectures
• Html
• Soa
• Sql
• Hibernate
• Jquery
• Scala
• Web Applications
• Test Driven Development
• Architecture
• Design Patterns
• Mobile Applications
• Web Development
• Android
• Java