André Allavena
Engineering Bare at Ladbrokes Australia
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Allavena is a pragmatic engineering leader and former CTO with 11+ years of experience building high-throughput, secure platforms and accelerating delivery through SDLC and continuous delivery practices. He has led product, architecture and compliance efforts across regulated markets—designing data-centre architectures, implementing novel scalable data-collection systems, and driving license and security programs under tight timelines. At Bare he’s focused on assembling a high-performance team to reinvent end-of-life services while earlier roles included platform leadership for payments and solutions architecture for gaming and betting. A hands-on contributor, he has fixed core authentication issues and added JWT refresh capabilities to the well-regarded Rodauth project, reflecting a blend of deep distributed-systems research (PhD) and practical engineering. Known for clear communication and cross-disciplinary coordination, he consistently turns complex regulatory and operational constraints into deployable, customer-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Engineering, Master of Science, Engineering at CentraleSupélecPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Cornell University
English, French
Github Skills (6)
json10
authentication10
user-authentication10
jwt10
ruby10
api-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeremyevans/rodauth
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Ruby's Most Advanced Authentication Framework
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:André contributed to the Rodauth authentication framework by fixing hash syntax issues for Ruby 1.8. They also implemented features for JSON Web Token (JWT) refresh functionality, including adding documentation, using configured keys in requests/responses, and implementing short access tokens with longer-lived refresh tokens. The commits involved modifications to the core logic of the JWT refresh mechanism within the Rodauth framework.
authenticationframeworkrubyauthentication-framework
allavena/pact-support
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Shared code for Pact gems
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
gemspactshared-code
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