Allen Wei
CTO & Co-Founder at Gradual
California, United States
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SeniorAllen Wei is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 15 years of experience building high-availability web platforms and payment systems across US and EMEA markets. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Ruby on Rails (8 years), iOS (3 years), and DevOps (4 years), and has led large service-oriented architectures and remote engineering teams. As co-founder of Gradual and former engineering manager and technical lead at Groupon, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade operations and agile management practices. He has particular strength in payments, orders systems, and running resilient, highly available sites under real traffic. A regular speaker on Ruby/Rails, remote work, DevOps, and startups, he blends practical engineering with people leadership. Based in California, he often bridges product and infrastructure work, moving quickly from architectural vision to production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (67)
api10
coercion10
rails-api10
rest9
notification9
swift9
ruby9
rest-api9
ios9
objective-c9
macos9
ruby-on-rails8
xml8
cocoapods8
xslt8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Gradual-Inc/actions-eks-deploy
Sep 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 3 years
allenwei/seofy
May 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:32 commits in 6 months
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