Reed Allman
Self Employed
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolReed Allman is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and cloud-native systems, currently freelancing from Las Vegas. He has held senior roles at Oracle and Iron.io and contributed to fnproject/fn, a well-regarded container-native, cloud-agnostic serverless platform, where he focused on CloudEvents handling, JSON content issues, syslog streaming, and thoughtful refactors. Comfortable across distributed systems and serverless architectures, Reed combines pragmatic engineering with attention to observability and dependency hygiene. His Bachelor’s in Software Engineering from Auburn underpins a strong foundation in reliable, production-grade systems. Known for concise, practical contributions to open source, he brings both enterprise and startup sensibilities to projects.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering at Auburn University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
serverless10
go10
backend10
back-end-development10
logging9
json9
api8
container8
docker8
dockers8
apidoc8
fn6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
fnproject/fn
May 2018 - Aug 2019
The container native, cloud agnostic serverless platform.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:106 commits, 381 PRs, 497 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Reed primarily focused on backend development, contributing significantly to the serverless platform's core functionalities. Their work included implementing and testing features related to CloudEvents processing, particularly addressing content type issues and handling JSON data. They also added support for user-defined syslog writers at the application level, enabling functions to stream logs to specified syslog URLs. Furthermore, they refactored components related to removing old code and updated external dependencies.
containershands-onswarmcloud-agnosticagnostic
iron-io/enterprise
Feb 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
enterprise
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