Edwin Allen
Director Of Engineering at Audible
Greater Mexico City, State of Mexico
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Top SchoolEdwin Allen is a hands-on Director of Engineering and founder with 11 years of experience building AI-powered, cloud-native platforms and scaling engineering organizations across LATAM and beyond. He blends product-first full-stack development with systems-level architecture, specializing in LLM-driven agents, event-driven backends, and microservices built with Elixir, Node.js, and Ruby. Edwin has led hypergrowth at Zubale—scaling engineering from a handful to 150+ engineers—and now directs generative-AI marketing platforms at Audible. He pairs technical depth (CI/CD, Kubernetes, Kafka/RabbitMQ) with people-centered leadership, mentoring distributed teams and formalizing incident and career frameworks. A continuous experimenter and founder, he has applied retail-as-lab thinking to create tech-first store experiences and automated commerce flows with GenAI. Based in Greater Mexico City, he is known for moving quickly from prototypes to production while keeping strong product-market focus.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Computer Science at Universidad de San Carlos de GuatemalaBachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at Colegio Científico Integrado
Spanish, English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (107)
translation10
elixir10
mongoose9
seneca9
rancher9
docker9
hubot8
balloon8
orchestration8
container-management8
expressjs8
fetch8
container8
kubernetes8
waterline7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
yalochat/fb-layer-adapter
May 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 46 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
nodejsfacebook
edwinallenz/elixir-school
Mar 2017 - Oct 2019
Lessons about the Elixir programming language
Contributions:38 pushes, 19 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
elixir-programming-languageprogramming-languageerlangelixir
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