M Allen
Director Of Developer Advocacy at Grafana Labs
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolM Allen is a director-level developer advocacy leader with 12 years of experience building developer ecosystems and bridging engineering with product and community strategy. Currently leading Developer Advocacy at Grafana Labs after senior leadership roles at Neo4j, he combines cloud architecture experience with hands-on backend and database engineering. His open-source contributions to well-known Neo4j projects (APOC procedures and GraphQL integrations) show deep expertise in graph databases, secure query handling, and production-grade tooling. He has led technical teams and SaaS builds as a former CTO, and earlier work in federal interoperability and healthcare data demonstrates strength in complex, regulated systems. Based in Richmond, VA, he brings a rare mix of strategic finance governance (VCU trustee roles) and day-to-day engineering chops. Colleagues note his knack for turning database-level insights into developer-friendly APIs and metrics that scale.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Information Systems, M.S. Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University - School of BusinessB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University
English, German, Chinese
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Github Skills (42)
stored-procedures10
javascript10
css10
graph-database10
wpgraphql10
java10
neo4j10
javas10
junit10
cypher10
wordpress-graphql10
jtest10
html10
graphql10
web-development10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j-documentation/developer-resources
Feb 2018 - May 2020
this repository is outdated and will be archived
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 11 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:M made multiple updates to the documentation repository, primarily focusing on the user interface and menu structure. They addressed the CSS links, fixed menu inaccuracies, and updated links. Additionally, the user performed code modifications in the head partial and assets related to CSS.
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neo4j-contrib/neo4j-apoc-procedures
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
Awesome Procedures On Cypher for Neo4j - codenamed "apoc" If you like it, please ★ above ⇧
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 18 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:M focused on enhancing the Neo4j APOC procedures library by implementing new functions for parsing URLs and email addresses, deprecating older methods. This involved creating new test cases and integrating Java API functionalities. They also contributed to ensuring the library's robustness by addressing trigger-related issues and integrating metrics and file streaming capabilities. Further contributions include adding storage metrics for inspecting disk space.
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