Allen Fair
Principal Software Engineer & Software Architect at BIGLIST
Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAllen Fair is a Principal Software Engineer and Software Architect with over 17 years of professional experience and a software career stretching back to the mid-1980s. He leads architecture and delivery at BIGLIST, pairing full-stack development with team leadership, mentoring, and hands-on command-line craftsmanship. A proponent of agile and TDD practices, he has managed application development across media, finance, and online platforms at companies like TV Guide, Merrill Lynch, and theglobe.com. Known for "searching for the perfect abstraction," he blends pragmatic engineering with a drive for elegant designs that scale. Based in Upper Merion Township, PA, he brings institutional knowledge from long tenures and a knack for turning complex requirements into maintainable systems.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Commonwealth University-Lock Haven
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Github Skills (56)
cursor10
parser10
postgresql10
python10
bounce10
email-validation10
large-scale10
ruby10
adapter10
email-address10
batch10
validate10
mvc9
rails9
ansible9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
afair/email_address
Apr 2013 - Aug 2022
The EmailAddress Gem to work with and validate email addresses.
Contributions:189 commits, 40 PRs, 144 pushes in 9 years 5 months
ruby-gememail-addressemailrubyaddresses
afair/postgresql_cursor
May 2010 - Jan 2023
ActiveRecord PostgreSQL Adapter extension for using a cursor to return a large result set
Contributions:118 commits, 23 PRs, 52 pushes in 12 years 10 months
ruby-gembatchrailsrubyadapter
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