Summary
Allen Wyma is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building and improving web and cloud systems across startups and finance. Based in Hong Kong, he combines hands-on development in Ruby, Python and Elixir with a passion for automation, DRY design, and packaging projects for portability. He has led engineering and product efforts—from launching production services with zero downtime to introducing company-wide Git workflows and monitoring/metric systems that improved reliability. As founder of Plangora and an Elixir Mix panelist, he blends entrepreneurial product sense with community advocacy and mentoring experience teaching Rails and Bootstrap worldwide. Notably, he favors automating routine work so teams can focus on higher-level design, and has a history of cutting code complexity while improving performance.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Art, Computer Science, Chinese, Bachelors of Art, Computer Science, Chinese at Carthage College
English, Chinese, Chinese