Andrew Allen
Senior Director Of Engineering at Helium Mobile
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Allen is a senior engineering leader with 14 years of experience building product-led teams and infrastructure at the intersection of financial systems, cryptography, and incentivized wireless networks. Based in San Francisco, he helped author the original Helium whitepaper and progressed from building greenfield React Native and Elixir/Phoenix products to leading web and mobile engineering as VP and now Senior Director of Engineering at Helium Mobile. He combines hands-on full‑stack engineering (React, React Native, Elixir/Phoenix, GraphQL, NextJS) with strategic product work to scale decentralized, token‑incentivized networks for IoT and wireless coverage. A founder with startup and acquisition experience and a published author on efficient Rails development, he brings both operator grit and technical depth to complex distributed systems. Notably, his work spans blockchain protocol thinking through to consumer apps and commerce integrations that processed early Helium hotspot orders.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityCulver Academies
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (140)
docker-machine10
python10
lorawan10
cryptocurrency10
docker-registry10
docker-container10
dockerfile10
oh-my-zsh10
helium10
shell10
cli10
git10
elixir10
typescript10
rails10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
novalabsxyz/helium-ruby
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
A Ruby gem for communicating with the Helium API
Contributions:3 releases, 99 commits, 47 PRs in 8 months
rubyiothelium
allenan/allenan-theme
Oct 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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