Allen Hsu
Software Engineer And Manager at The Lookout Way
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolAllen Hsu is a software engineer and manager based in Brisbane, Australia, bringing over a decade of experience delivering real-time, interactive applications and building engineering teams. He intentionally blends a strong operations and consulting background with hands-on software development, teaching himself Python, PHP, C#, and SQL along the way. Over the last several years he has led engineering teams at The Lookout Way and Five Good Friends, serving as interim head of engineering and, since 2022, as Software Engineer and Manager, guiding product delivery and technical strategy. His track record spans developer roles, leadership, and mentoring, including early work as a student mentor with General Assembly and a foundation in finance and biomedical sciences from the University of Melbourne. He is driven by applying new technologies to solve complex problems and to empower teams to ship reliable, scalable systems. Based in Brisbane, he leverages a multidisciplinary background—biomedical sciences, finance, and commerce—to approach software challenges with a structured, analytics-driven mindset.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, OP1, High School, OP1 at Brisbane Grammar SchoolWeb Development, Web Development at General AssemblyMaster's Degree, Finance, General, Master's Degree, Finance, General at Queensland University of TechnologyThe University of Melbourne
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (162)
mvc10
clippy10
erb10
ruby10
data-loading10
ember10
linter10
activerecord10
pty10
xterm10
ruby-on-rails10
rust-lang10
javascript10
reactive10
signals10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
aldhsu/lsd
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
The next gen ls command
Contributions:32 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 3 months
command-linenext-gengencli
thelookoutway/australia_postcode
Oct 2017 - Aug 2023
Gem for manipulating Australian postcodes
Contributions:2 pushes, 4 issues in 5 years 11 months
australianpostcodesgemruby
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