Allen Nelson
Head Of Engineering at Draftbit
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAllen Nelson is a Head of Engineering based in Chicago with 13 years of full-stack experience building distributed systems, REST APIs, DevOps pipelines, and polished front-end UIs. At Draftbit he progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Head of Engineering, leading teams that ship product-facing cloud-native systems. His background spans Python, JavaScript, ReasonML, Kubernetes, and Postgres, with deep experience in document generation and authoring engines from prior roles. Trained with a Master's in Computer Science and a BA in Physics from the University of Chicago, he blends rigorous technical foundations with practical production engineering. Early international teaching and lab research experience hint at strong communication skills and a methodical, experimental approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Chicago
Japanese, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (171)
postgresql10
nix10
python10
messenger10
windows10
telegram10
haskell10
linux10
opengl10
database10
jigsaw10
sqlite10
reasonml10
ghc10
macos10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
thinkpad20/llama
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:59 commits in 3 months
compilermultiparadigmprogramming-languageimperative
thinkpad20/sql
Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:51 commits in 2 months
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