Allen Smith
Developer Relations Lead
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Smith is a Developer Relations leader with 11 years of experience shaping developer-facing programs and creative technical teams across companies like Umbraco, Automattic, and GitHub. He blends storytelling, product marketing, and hands-on technical production to scale content, systems, and onboarding—having built a strategic creative department at GitHub that dramatically increased output and trained nearly 500 new hires. Based in Charlotte, he pairs nonprofit and public-sector IT leadership with commercial product and community roles, comfortable translating between engineers, marketers, and executives. As president of an independent label and a longtime multimedia producer, he brings uncommon experience marrying narrative craft with front-end systems and process automation. Colleagues rely on him to connect people and turn complex technical programs into clear, scalable experiences.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at The University of Texas at AustinGerman and European Studies Program, German and European Studies Program at The Julius Maximilians University of WürzburgMaster of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts at Boston University
German, English
Github Skills (75)
woocommerce10
omnifocus10
cms10
libgit210
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
woocommerce-rest-api10
umbraco10
wordpress10
git-lfs10
large-files10
compiler10
versioning10
gatsby10
git10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
loranallensmith/scripts
Jan 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
zshellshellbash
loranallensmith/loranallensmith.github.io
Jan 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:13 PRs, 39 pushes, 10 branches in 9 years 9 months
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