Allen Gilliland
Senior Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Bath, England, United Kingdom
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Allen Gilliland is a senior software engineer and startup founder with 25+ years of experience building high-scale products across analytics, advertising, and e-commerce. He co-founded Metabase and led its engineering and frontend work on a widely used open-source BI tool, later architecting serverless data pipelines and recommendation engines at Wair that delivered millions of fit suggestions. More recently he helped build a lakehouse-driven BI and billing stack at Tabular and now develops cloud services for ClickHouse, blending deep backend, data pipeline, and full-stack expertise. Comfortable switching languages and platforms—Clojure, React, AWS, Iceberg/Trino—he’s equally at home designing architecture or shipping UI polish, as evidenced by notable frontend contributions to Metabase. Based in Bath, UK, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with a pragmatic focus on product delivery and data-driven reliability.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University
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Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 2886 commits, 636 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Allen implemented and modified various components within the Metabase frontend, focusing on enhancements to the user interface. Contributions included adding tooltips to custom fields and adding the functionality to handle displaying and editing parameters for parameterized cards. The user also made modifications to improve the functionality of the dashboards in general and the display of data in the visualizations.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
opencitymodel/opencitymodel
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Open citygml data for the United States
Contributions:37 commits, 15 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 1 month
citygml
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