David Allen
Staff Software Engineer at Culture Amp
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Allen is a Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with nine years of hands-on experience building and refining web applications and deployment tooling. He rose through engineering roles at Zendesk into senior positions and now leads technical efforts at Culture Amp, combining full-stack development with product-focused refinements. An active contributor to open-source projects like zendesk/samson, he has a track record of improving deployment UIs, JIRA integrations, and changeset visibility to make complex release processes more user-friendly. Beyond code, David brings a scientific mindset from a BSc (Hons) in molecular microbiology and pursues varied technical hobbies—electronics, Linux, and homebrewing—that fuel his practical, systems-oriented approach to engineering.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Molecular microbiology, Bachelor of Science (Hons) Molecular microbiology at Monash University
Github Skills (13)
webui10
rails10
user-interface10
web-development10
continuous-delivery10
website-development10
ruby-on-rails10
deployment-automation10
kubernetes-pods9
html9
css9
kubernetes9
javascript8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/samson
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Web interface for deployments, with plugin architecture and kubernetes support
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 12 days
Contributions summary:David's commits primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the deployment web interface. They addressed issues related to JIRA integration and improved the changeset tab functionalities. Code changes involved modifications across multiple views and models, including the addition and refinement of tab navigation, risk assessments, and JIRA issue displays, suggesting a focus on improving the user interface and deployment information.
kubernetesplugin-architecturecdcontinuous-delivery
StaphSynth/StaphSynth.github.io
Jul 2016 - Sep 2025
My personal site/blog
Contributions:227 PRs, 359 pushes, 108 branches in 9 years 3 months
blog-sitejekyll
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