Summary
Allen Holub is a Principal software architect and consultant based in Berkeley with over three decades of hands-on experience helping organizations become truly agile and architect resilient systems. He advises executives and coaches teams on Agile transformation, domain-driven design, microservices, and TDD while also serving as a pragmatic CTO-level problem-solver for startups and enterprises. A prolific author and speaker, he has produced highly rated courses for LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight, and O’Reilly and regularly presents at top conferences on architecture and agile practice. His technical breadth spans languages from C and C++ to Java, Swift, Python, and TypeScript, and deep backend experience with messaging, databases, and high-throughput architectures. Notably, he blends classroom rigor (UC Berkeley Extension, Mills College) with real-world delivery, running full-team training that takes problems from requirements through implementation-level design. Expect a candid, evidence-based approach that challenges common wisdom in favor of pragmatic engineering improvements.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
AB Computer Science and Medieval History, AB Computer Science and Medieval History at University of California, Berkeley