Michael Allen
Principal Software Engineer at Ards and North Down Cycle Campaign Group
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Allen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Belfast with 14 years of experience building reliable web and developer-facing tools. He combines hands-on full-stack development with technical leadership, having led teams at Times Higher Education and Kainos and currently shaping architecture and delivery at Liberty IT. An active problem-solver, he contributes open-source tooling such as git-radar—a performance-improved, color-configurable git heads-up display that he refactored and bug-fixed to show local/remote commit diffs and stash status. He pairs deep engineering craft from an MEng in Computer Science with practical consultancy experience, and extends his community commitment by volunteering as treasurer for a local cycle campaign advocating safer streets.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
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Github Skills (20)
git10
scripting10
bash10
script10
sh10
shell10
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css9
zsh9
html9
performance-optimization8
version-control7
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maven6
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Github contributions (5)
michaeldfallen/git-radar
Feb 2015 - Nov 2016
A heads up display for git
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 205 commits, 48 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily worked on improving the git-radar project, a heads-up display for git. Their contributions included refactoring tests, converting them into shunit tests, and fixing bugs. They also added features to show local and remote commit differences, including branch name and stash status, and improved the overall performance of the application. The user also refactored the prompts to allow color configurations.
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michaeldfallen/rusty-boxen
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:190 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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