Allen Ballway
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Ballway is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building cross-platform consumer and mobile features, currently working at Google after six years at Microsoft where he contributed to Edge's New Tab Productivity Hub, Cortana UX microservices, Project Rome, and cross-platform notification clients. He is proficient in C, C++, C#, and Java and has hands-on experience improving Objective-C tooling on Windows through notable contributions to Microsoft’s WinObjC project, including CoreText fixes and Cortana integration tests. Allen blends systems-level engineering with product-focused front-end work, shipping robust multi-device experiences and developer SDKs. Based in Seattle, he pairs strong academic foundations in computer science and mathematics with a practical knack for solving platform interoperability and cross-device communication problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of MichiganBachelors of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics at Vanderbilt UniversityCarnegie Mellon University
English
Github Skills (4)
unit-testing10
ios10
objective-c10
coretext10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WinObjC
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Objective-C for Windows
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:135 commits, 238 PRs, 109 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Allen implemented several tests related to Cortana integration for iOS. They added functional tests to verify voice command and protocol foreground activation, creating mocked objects for various Windows Runtime classes. They also fixed issues with NSData and NSArray, including fixing their descriptions and correcting the return value for base64 encoding. The user also contributed fixes related to text drawing using CoreText, including supporting multiple font families and addressing several drawing and coordinate-related bugs.
objective-cwindows
aballway/WinObjC
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:702 pushes, 118 branches in 11 months
objective-cwindows
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