Frans Allen
Founder at Statically
Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Summary
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Top SchoolFrans Allen is a self-taught software engineer and serial founder in Yogyakarta with 10 years’ experience building high-performance web tooling and DNS services. He founded Statically, PureDNS and several web-focused products (BlobCDN, Favicone, Speedflare) that emphasize scalability, CDN/DNS integration, and real-world performance under millions of users. Comfortable across Go and JavaScript, Frans combines backend, DevOps and protocol work—automating DNS via Cloudflare APIs, experimenting with DoH/DoT/DoQ, and tuning the Linux kernel for UDP/TCP traffic. His pragmatic "codewalking" research method—reading and dissecting open-source repos—fuels practical innovations and informed protocol choices for censored or high-latency environments. Starting from a non-technical family background and years of odd jobs to buy his first laptop, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a hands-on focus on fast, reliable, and usable systems.
10 years of coding experience
Electro, Electro at SMK N 3 Yogyakarta
Indonesian, javanese, English
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Github Skills (21)
automation10
php10
dns10
management10
mailgun10
cloudflare-api10
automations10
domain-name9
apim9
web-analytics9
api9
subdomain9
developer-tools9
vercel8
githubaction-workflow8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
thedev-id/thedev.id
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Identity for developers on the web.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 265 commits, 175 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Frans primarily focused on automating DNS record management using PHP scripts and the Cloudflare API, integrating Mailgun for email notifications. They implemented a system to automatically update CNAME records based on a JSON configuration. Further contributions involved environment variable configuration for sensitive information like API keys and email addresses and the implementation of web analytics.
dnsnamespacedeveloper-toolsfor-developersdomain
staticallyio/screenshot
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
A Screenshot API to convert web to image or PDF. Supports desktop and mobile views.
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
apiimagepdfproductivityscreenshot
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