Allison Hume
Technical Lead at Wealthfront
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAllison Hume is a Technical Lead with 10 years of experience building resilient, production-grade systems at Wealthfront, where she progressed from software engineer to lead since 2016. She brings a strong distributed-systems and networking background grounded in research—her graduate work at UC Santa Cruz involved C++ TCP congestion control and Python SDN controllers that learned to detect and mitigate DDoS. Comfortable across languages and layers, Allison has production experience with C++, Python, Java, SQL and cloud failure-injection tooling. She combines hands-on implementation with team leadership to deliver reliable financial infrastructure at scale. An astrophysics BA with a CS certificate from Princeton and an MS in Computer Science gives her a rare mix of scientific rigor and practical engineering. Colleagues would describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates research-grade ideas into operational systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Astrophysics; Certificate, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Astrophysics; Certificate, Computer Science at Princeton UniversityGithub contributions (5)
ahume128/inigo_ns3
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:94 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
slugiot/slugiot-server
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:62 commits, 7 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 month
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