Jeff Allen
Team Lead at Datadog
Richardson, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Allen is a product-minded software engineer and working manager who blends hands-on development with team-building and product strategy. With roles spanning computational biology, startup leadership as President of Trestle Technology, and senior engineering leadership at RStudio before leading a team at Datadog, he brings a rare mix of domain depth and operational experience. He excels at turning early ideas into mature, profitable products while mentoring small teams to deliver high-quality software. Based in Richardson, Texas, Jeff pairs an academic foundation (BS/MS in Computer Science from SMU) with pragmatic engineering instincts, including a focus on performance profiling reflected in his GitHub bio. Colleagues rely on him to balance technical rigor with product outcomes, and he thrives in contexts where he can both ship code and shape roadmaps.
3 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
Github Skills (7)
documentation9
jwt9
hugo9
datadog9
web-token9
java8
json7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
trestletech-dd/java-jwt
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Java implementation of JSON Web Token (JWT)
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
tokenjson-web-tokenweb-tokenjavajwt
DataDog/documentation
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
The source for Datadog's documentation site.
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 comments in 2 days
wikihugodatadogdocumentation-site
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