Phil Allen
Data Engineer
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Allen is a data engineer and seasoned software leader with over two decades of experience building reliable systems across defense, telecommunications, and cloud platforms, most recently leading Payments Financials and Data Platform at Microsoft. He specializes in designing end-to-end data ingestion and processing pipelines that deliver the right data to the right people in high-compliance, high-security environments. A hands-on engineer and coach, he blends architecture, testing, and automation to improve code quality and operational stability, evidenced by contributions to the Roslyn .NET compiler test suite. Based in Bismarck, ND, Phil is motivated by freeing people’s time through smarter software and actively mentors others the way his mentors guided him. He pairs pragmatism with a track record of delivering award-winning programs and measurable business impact.
6 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Bradley University
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Github Skills (5)
roslyn10
visual-studio10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/roslyn
May 2023 - Mar 2025
The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 28 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Phil's commits primarily focus on modifying and skipping integration tests within the Roslyn compiler project. They address issues related to project template renames and square bracket completion, disabling specific tests to maintain build stability. Additionally, the user contributed to ensuring compilation output paths are normalized, specifically correcting issues in how paths are handled in project system code, by normalizing paths for compilation output. Their work demonstrates a focus on code quality and validation within the .NET compiler ecosystem.
roslyndotnetf-sharpcompilervisual-basic
phil-allen-msft/roslyn
May 2023 - May 2023
The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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