Aaron Allen
Senior Engineering Manager at Localize
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Allen is a senior engineering manager with two decades of experience scaling SaaS and commerce platforms, currently leading product engineering at Localize from Florida. He has a strong track record at enterprise and high-growth companies—driving measurable outcomes like a 32% reduction in time-to-sellable at Shopify and removing manual brokerage steps for UPS through predictive classification services. A hands-on leader who builds and mentors teams, Aaron combines cloud-native architecture, integrations and performance-focused refactors with product-minded delivery across distributed systems. He is also an active Haskell contributor to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, reflecting a deep interest in language-level correctness and tooling that informs his pragmatic approach to complex backend problems.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Delaware
Github Skills (6)
haskell10
compiler-development10
ghc10
type-check9
diagnostics9
type-checking9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ghc/ghc
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Mirror of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Please submit issues and patches to GHC's Gitlab instance (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc). First time contributors are encouraged to get started with the newcomers info (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/contributing).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aaron primarily contributed to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) by implementing and refining compiler features. Their work included adding support for `Char` literals in empty enumeration warnings, enhancing the `:doc` command by adding context and correcting output for duplicate record fields, and correcting the output for the `:doc` command. Additionally, the user made diagnostic conversions and implemented new checks within the compiler's codebase. These modifications improved the compiler's functionality and user experience.
ghcget-startednewcomershaskellcabal
aaronallen8455/pinned-warnings
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 59 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
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