Allen Guan is a software engineer and founder with 10 years of experience building production systems across startups and large tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led frontend engineering as a founding engineer at Variant, co-founded and served as CTO at Parasol (acquired by Mysten Labs), and contributed to real-time communication and telephony at Cruise. His background spans maps and automation at Uber—where his work helped cut Uber Eats delivery times by up to 30%—to early-stage product hypothesis testing for manufacturing copilots in the food & beverage space. Comfortable across full-stack and systems-level problems, he combines hands-on coding with product intuition and a neuroscience education that informs his analytical approach. Currently at OpenRouter, he brings founder grit and cross-domain experience to fast-moving engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, Neuroscience at University of California, Davis
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