Allan Young
Russell, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAllan Young is an IT Analyst and HCI-trained practitioner with a decade of experience designing and shipping user-centered digital services, currently building and migrating Dynamics and Power Platform solutions for Canada’s digital transformation initiatives. He blends deep academic research (MA and PhD-level HCI work) with hands-on UX consulting across startups, government agencies, and healthcare contractors, translating user studies into actionable product insights. Equally at home with creative coding and emerging web technologies, his GitHub focus spans WebXR, OpenAI integrations, mobile front-end work, and visual frameworks like Processing and openFrameworks. Past roles at McGill, Akendi, IBM and Adobe showcase his range from research supervision and usability studies to prototyping internal tools and interactive exhibits. He’s known for streamlining UX processes for diverse clients and bringing a maker’s curiosity to production systems, often bridging research rigor with practical delivery. Based in Russell, Ontario, Allan combines public-sector impact with creative technical exploration that surfaces non-obvious user needs into measurable improvements.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, High School, Diploma, High School at BCCSCBachelor of Information Technology, Interactive Multimedia Design, Bachelor of Information Technology, Interactive Multimedia Design at Carleton UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Human Computer Interaction at McGill University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (28)
threejs10
in-progress10
experiences10
macos-catalina10
multi-user10
educational-technology10
virtual-reality9
hackintosh8
webxr8
clover7
opencore6
minecraft6
powerapps4
patreon4
android3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MeD-DMC/Adapt-settings-applicator
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Applies settings to a published Adapt Zip package
Contributions:2 releases, 17 pushes, 2 tags in 27 days
zippublishedadaptsettings
pekflyer/pekflyer.github.io
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 day
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