Cheri Allen
Partnership Compliance at Code for America
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolCheri Allen is a pragmatic senior software engineer and educator with 13 years of experience building reliable web and backend systems across startups and large enterprises. She blends hands-on engineering—ranging from Go and Node/Express backends to front-end performance work—with a pedagogy-focused approach, having taught and developed courses for UW Professional & Continuing Education and served as a guest lecturer at the University of Washington. Cheri has led cross-functional technical projects that delivered measurable business impact, including a pricing initiative that projected $13M in annual revenue and promotions experiments that boosted organic acquisition by 25%. She emphasizes testing, observability, and developer experience—authoring standards, creating Docker build pipelines, and instituting monitoring practices that enabled zero-defect rollouts. Passionate about equitable access to tech, she translates industry practice into accessible curricula and mentorship while continuing to experiment with product and founder roles.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Cybersecurity and Leadership, Master's degree Cybersecurity and Leadership at University of WashingtonCertificate Foundations Certificate in for Cybersecurity & Analytics, Certificate Foundations Certificate in for Cybersecurity & Analytics at University of Washington TacomaB.F.A. Fine Arts, B.F.A. Fine Arts at Florida Atlantic University
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Github Skills (45)
gdi10
ada10
front-end-development10
role-management9
entity-relationship-diagram9
html9
forking8
ruby7
css7
cloning6
react-native-web6
rails6
javascript6
react5
commerce5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cherimarie/LibraryCollection
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 107 PRs, 172 pushes in 1 day
web-interface
UWFront-End-Cert/DEPRECATED-html300
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
UW PCE Certificate in Front-End Development - HTML5 300
Contributions:30 commits, 63 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 3 months
front-end-development
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