Allen Wu
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Wu is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently shaping iOS design systems at Meta. He brings deep mobile expertise from nearly six years as a senior iOS engineer at Originate and earlier hands-on roles iterating on UI, CI, and developer tooling. An active open-source contributor, Allen has improved reliability and cross-platform handling in notable projects like git-town and danger, focusing on configuration, CLI ergonomics, and test robustness. He combines pixel-level attention to user experience with practical backend and scripting skills (Ruby, shell) developed during his internship and webmaster work. Comfortable across the full stack, he’s known for making tooling more predictable and maintainable—a behind-the-scenes approach that reduces friction for teams. Allen holds a B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from UCLA.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (17)
git10
testing10
cil10
ruby10
command-line10
scripting9
github9
shell9
script9
sh9
automations8
automation8
utility8
workflow-engine8
code-review8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
git-town/git-town
Dec 2014 - Apr 2019
Git branches made easy
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 51 PRs, 167 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Allen primarily focused on improving the `git-town` project, making changes to the configuration, command-line interface, and various testing files. They implemented proper casing of GitHub and Bitbucket references, encapsulated configuration settings, and updated the codebase to better handle different hosting platforms. The user also contributed to the test suite, improving the reliability and maintainability of the project.
branchesgit-flowgit-guiworkflow-automationversion-control
danger/danger
Apr 2017 - May 2018
🚫 Stop saying "you forgot to …" in code review (in Ruby)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Allen primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the "danger/danger" project. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to file name comparisons, handling nil messages, and addressing an issue with the CircleCI API failing to detect pull requests. They also made improvements to the documentation and updated links to use HTTPS. The user's work involved modifications to both the core codebase and the testing framework.
stopbitbucketgitlabrubyin-review
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