Owen Allen
Principal Engineer at autoLOTO INC.
Greater Tucson Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Allen is a Principal Engineer with 14+ years of hands-on experience driving architecture, delivery, and modernization for large-scale web platforms, currently leading technical efforts at autoLOTO and Granicus (formerly Simpleview). He’s the chief architect behind a next-generation CRM, led a company-wide migration to Kubernetes and Google Cloud, and personally contributed millions of lines of code while managing and mentoring multi-team engineering organizations. A self-taught engineer with a journalism degree, he blends strong technical depth in Node, React, GraphQL, and cloud-native tooling with rare communication skills that translate complex systems into stakeholder-aligned product outcomes. His open-source contributions span both front-end validation and core MongoDB driver improvements, reflecting work across UI and low-level backend resiliency. Pragmatic about trade-offs, he balances hands-on coding with strategic leadership and a focus on automation—examples include an SSL certificate system creating thousands of certs and federated GraphQL APIs that simplified cross-team integration.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (23)
ajax10
javascript10
admin10
jquery10
back-end-development10
databases10
database-administration10
mongodb-database10
form-validation10
nodejs10
mongodb10
database10
authentication9
user-authentication9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/node-mongodb-native
Aug 2014 - Jul 2017
The official MongoDB Node.js driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Owen contributed to the MongoDB Node.js driver by addressing several areas of the codebase. They improved error handling by ensuring errors from bulk operations are instances of Error and by updating the reconnect retries after reconnection. The user also refactored the SCRAM authentication mechanism, optimizing the `hi()` algorithm using `crypto.pbkdf2Sync` for performance improvements and fixing merge conflicts. Furthermore, the user made changes to the replica set functionality, by ensuring that the process closes properly upon a Db.close() call.
nosqlnode-jsnode-mongodbnode-librarynodejs
posabsolute/jQuery-Validation-Engine
May 2012 - Aug 2012
jQuery form validation plugin
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Owen focused on improving the jQuery validation engine plugin by updating its functionality and fixing bugs. They modified code related to AJAX validation, including passing extra data to the server and handling the response. They also addressed issues with how the validation engine interacts with the DOM, such as updating the outerWidth calculation for correct syntax and making sure validation halts when there is an AJAX error. Additionally, the user updated the required rule to check HTML5 placeholders.
jqueryvalidationjavascriptjquery-formvalidation-plugin
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