Colin Allen
Software Engineer at Paychex
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Allen is a software engineer with 9 years of experience and a BS in Computer Science from RIT, currently based in Somerville, MA and working full-time at Paychex after a co-op there. He brings full‑stack experience from startups to enterprise, having built and tested large-scale features, written test plans, and prototyped proof‑of‑concepts. Early work in healthcare tech included designing a Django/DRF microservice that integrated with hospital EMRs to surface patient flow insights, showing comfort with clinical data and algorithms. Comfortable across React, Django, and backend systems, Colin blends practical implementation skills with a habit of turning hackathon ideas into real products. He stands out for converting cross-disciplinary prototypes into maintainable software while moving from co-op to SWE I within a year.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
javascript9
open-source9
emacs7
emacs-lisp7
vim7
emacs-lsp5
melpa5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ColinAllenDev/KrakenNetworkEngine
Jun 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 11 months
ColinAllenDev/PepeEngine
Jul 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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