Allen Tucker
President at Bowdoin College
Greater Savannah Area United States
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Top SchoolAllen Tucker is a veteran computer scientist and open-source software developer with 14 years of formal industry experience and a long academic career spanning professorships at Georgetown, Colgate, and Bowdoin. As President of the Non-Profit FOSS Institute, he combines teaching, writing, and hands-on development to create software projects for students and nonprofits. He holds an MS and PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern and a BA in Mathematics from Wesleyan, reflecting deep theoretical grounding paired with practical mentoring. Known for translating research and pedagogy into usable open-source tools, he focuses on projects that have educational and societal impact. Based in the Greater Savannah area, he continues to seek new collaborations that engage students in real-world software development for the public good.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics at Wesleyan UniversityMS and PhD, Computer Science, MS and PhD, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (13)
agriculture9
soil9
drupal9
risk-assessment7
operation7
voting7
rescue7
python3
modular2
webapp2
certification1
open-source1
macos1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
megandalster/sh-homeplate
Jun 2012 - Dec 2021
Food rescue and delivery management for Second Helpings in South Carolina
Contributions:65 commits, 68 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 8 months
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megandalster/homebasedemo2017
Jul 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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