Allan Collins
Senior Software Engineer at Lead Travel
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAllan Collins is a self-taught Senior Software Engineer with over 25 years of web development experience and a strong track record of remote-first work since 2008. He specializes in backend architecture, high-traffic WordPress and headless builds, Laravel, React, and API integrations, and has contributed to WordPress Core and notable open-source projects. Known on teams as the “Navy SEAL” for calmly resolving high-stakes incidents, he mentors engineers, elevates coding standards, and breaks complex work into deliverable scopes. At Penske Media he integrated Orange Logic and Getty into the WordPress Media Library, cutting outsourcing costs and editorial time, and he regularly provides 24/7 on-call support. Based in Colorado, Allan blends deep practical experience across VIP-scale sites, migrations, and performance tooling with a continual focus on process improvements and a path toward engineering leadership.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Organizational Management in Project Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Organizational Management in Project Management at Colorado Christian University
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Github Skills (58)
brightcove10
elasticpress10
phpcs10
wordpress10
cdn10
coding-conventions10
video-library10
wordpress-plugin10
elasticsearch10
php-codesniffer10
solr-search9
solr9
blob-storage9
newrelic9
wp-cli9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
allan23/solr-for-wordpress-on-pantheon
Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 144 pushes, 35 branches in 1 year 5 months
allan23/validated
Jan 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 24 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 year 11 months
wordpressw3c-validatorvalidatorchecksposts
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