Allen Short
Principal Software Engineer at Motorola Solutions
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolAllen Short is a Principal Software Engineer based in Birmingham, Alabama with 14 years of experience building and modernizing large-scale systems across security, telemetry, and cloud services. He has driven migrations and architectural improvements—most notably leading a multi-team effort to port a million-line Python codebase from Python 2 to 3 at Datadog while modernizing concurrency and CI to improve test isolation and performance. His background spans frontend and backend work at Mozilla, large-scale calendaring at Apple, and current work on physical access control systems at Motorola Solutions, showing comfort across user-facing features and infrastructure. Allen combines pragmatic engineering with technical leadership, reorganizing legacy systems into internal libraries that enable safer change and better observability. He brings a strong foundation in Python, distributed data processing, and CI-driven workflows, and has a history of contributing durable improvements back to open-source projects used in production. Colleagues would describe him as a methodical problem-solver who prefers incremental, measurable wins that reduce long-term operational burden.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Samford UniversityB.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Auburn University
Github Skills (120)
spark-sql10
dashboard10
postgresql10
athena10
python10
redash10
data-driven10
javascript10
linux10
davinci10
sql10
data-visualization10
database10
spark10
bigquery10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
washort/typhon
May 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:106 pushes, 50 branches in 3 years 9 months
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washort/redash
Sep 2016 - Jun 2019
Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data.
Contributions:114 pushes, 52 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
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