Holly Allen
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHolly Allen is a pragmatic engineering leader and fractional executive with 11 years of senior experience guiding teams through reliability, platform, and organizational change from San Francisco. She has led 60+ engineer organizations at 18F and Slack—owning platform APIs, SRE, and incident processes—and has repeatedly translated mission-driven goals into measurable delivery and retention improvements. As an advisor and coach since 2018, she helps startups and nonprofits (including Upsolve and CodeYourFuture) scale engineering practices, hiring, and roadmaps while keeping accessibility and inclusion front of mind. Holly blends hands-on technical judgment with people-first leadership, and has steered teams through acquisition and complex reliability challenges that are often invisible to customers.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (153)
origami10
traffic10
recurly10
risk-assessment10
policies10
active10
web-traffic9
gulp9
css9
tax9
fbi8
statistics8
javascript8
devrel7
jekyll7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hollyallen/hollyallen.github.io
Jun 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 9 months
hollyallen/sfrecpark-pools
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
swimpythonpooltimesuser-friendly
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