Allen Gong
Staff Software Engineer at AppFolio, Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Gong is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of full‑stack experience, currently leading the technical vision for AppFolio’s accounting codebase. He combines strong backend expertise (Ruby on Rails, MySQL, AWS) with modern front-end skills (React, ES6) and a track record of mentoring and growing engineering teams. His graduate work in computer networking and hands‑on hobbyist projects—WiFi Direct with Raspberry Pis and recent GraphQL exploration—give him practical insight into mobile and IoT integration. An open‑source contributor, he implemented a content recommendation engine for KA Lite using collaborative filtering techniques, showing an appetite for ML-driven product features. Based in Los Angeles, he bridges research-led thinking from his UCLA MS with pragmatic production experience at scale.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (1)
python10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
learningequality/ka-lite
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
KA Lite: lightweight web server for serving core Khan Academy content (videos and exercises) without needing internet connectivity
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 19 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Allen implemented a new file `content_recommendation.py` and made several changes to it, indicating work on content recommendation logic. They commented out a wrapper function and worked on the `get_next_recommendations` function, showing progress on this feature. The commits also demonstrate involvement in exercise and video related features and include adjustments in the `ExercisePracticeView` which may indicate frontend modifications.
connectivityservinginternet-connectivityweb-servervideos
AppFolioOnboarding/image-sharer-almgong
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:51 PRs, 178 pushes, 45 branches in 2 months
sharergithub-classroom
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