Summary
Allen Leis is a seasoned data engineer and systems-oriented software leader with 11+ years building large-scale ingestion, analytics, and secure data platforms for startups, government, and enterprise. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Databricks and an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown, he blends hands-on engineering in Scala, Go, Rust, and Python with team leadership, API and CLI design, and production-grade distributed systems. His work spans novel time-series and provable key-value databases, BYOK and enclave-based encrypted processing, and developer-facing tooling that abstracts complex transformations for end users. A former first engineer at Antimatter and lead at PingThings, he has a knack for turning research-inspired ideas into high-performance products and enjoys exploring database internals off-hours.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
St. Mary's College of Maryland
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Maryland