Allen Pike
Co-founder & CEO at Steamclock Software
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAllen Pike is a veteran software leader and founder with 16 years of experience building delightful, product-focused engineering teams and shipped software. As co-founder and CEO of Forestwalk Labs and former co-founder/CEO of Steamclock Software, he has a track record of growing a boutique product studio to a 16-person team and delivering high-quality apps for startups and Fortune 500s. Early roles at Apple and hands-on work at small companies grounded his full‑stack craftsmanship across web, macOS, and iOS platforms. He now focuses on tools that help teams build on LLMs faster, blending product taste with engineering rigor. Outside of work he hosts a podcast and writes monthly about what he’s learning, signaling a public-facing curiosity that fuels his product decisions. Based in Vancouver, he pairs pragmatic execution with a designer’s sensibility for delightful user experiences.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSc., Computing Science, BSc., Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (80)
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Github contributions (5)
VanJS/meetup
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Open source home for the VanJS Meetup 👩🏽💻👨🏼💻
Contributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 months
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apike/upupfm
Oct 2015 - Apr 2024
The Jekyll site for my podcast, Up Up Down Down.
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 7 months
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