James Allen
Unicorn Engineer at Defense Unicorns
Cedar Park, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Allen is a cloud-focused Unicorn Engineer with 10 years of experience designing, automating, and scaling infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP for both defense and commercial customers. He blends hands-on cloud engineering, virtualization, CI/CD, and web operations with a developer-first mindset, regularly using TypeScript/Node and frameworks like Angular and NestJS to smooth delivery pipelines. His background spans startups and consultancy (Teth, Contino) to mission-driven work at Defense Unicorns, showing an ability to move quickly between advisory and implementation roles. James holds an MS in Computing Security and a CS BS (Magna Cum Laude), and he’s known for learning new languages and tools on demand to solve unusual operational challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computing Security, Master of Science - MS, Computing Security at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude at University of Illinois Springfield
Github Skills (152)
angular-ui10
storybook10
windows10
datatable10
javascript-framework10
command-line-tool10
datagrid10
javascript10
ai-agent10
charts10
linux10
html10
monorepo10
js10
nest10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
METACEO/ng-transition
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Transition elements via classes like you would in the Vue and Alpine.js libraries.
Contributions:12 commits, 16 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 months
alpinejsvue
METACEO/nodejs.virtue
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 months
hashesintegrityin-order
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