Kristian Allen
Software Architect at University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKristian Allen is a Software Architect with 11+ years of experience building web applications, digital media platforms, and data repositories, currently shaping architecture for UCLA’s Digital Library Program and Data Science Center. He blends deep hands-on expertise in repository and search frameworks (Samvera, Islandora, Fedora, Solr, Drupal) with practical skills across Java, Python, PHP, R and modern DevOps tooling like Docker, Ansible and AWS. His background includes quantitative model development for equity trading and large-scale J2EE systems for the Census Bureau, giving him a rare mix of analytics-driven rigor and enterprise-grade system design. Comfortable leading prototyping, automation and knowledge transfer, he also teaches and mentors, translating complex technical stacks into maintainable platforms for research and discovery. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with cross-disciplinary study in information assurance and finance, which informs his emphasis on auditable, reproducible data workflows.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Information Assurance, Graduate Certificate, Information Assurance at Rochester Institute of TechnologyM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPost-Baccalaureate Certificate, Finance, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Finance at UCLA ExtensionB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at State University of New York at Buffalo
Github Skills (63)
stable8
data-wrangling7
nexus7
illuminate7
python7
preserve6
collections6
csv6
creative-commons5
ingest5
data-visualization5
datasets5
solr5
cms5
digital-humanities4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
UCLALibrary/csv-sanitizer
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
A project to identify CSV errors in input files to the UCLA Digital Library
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 months
UCLALibrary/metadata-extraction-lab
Jan 2024 - May 2024
An experimental repository to demonstrate metadata extraction tools
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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