Rob Allen
Chief Operating Officer
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Allen is a technology and operations leader with a decade of experience building product-focused engineering organizations and fintech services, now serving as COO of Lifeworks Advisors. He combines hands-on software engineering roots—from an early stint at Yahoo/Flurry and university hackathon leadership—with startup experience as a cofounder and CTO, shaping scalable systems and teams. At Lifeworks he blends interests in software, productivity, people, and design to break barriers for financial advisors and their clients, translating technical vision into operational execution. Based in Grand Rapids and educated in Computer Science at the University of Michigan, he brings a mix of design sensibility and engineering rigor to financial services. Notably, his background running MHacks and Michigan Hackers reflects a persistent commitment to developer communities and practical security/CTF work that informs his approach to product and team-building.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSE: Computer Science Engineering Computer Science, BSE: Computer Science Engineering Computer Science at University of Michigan College of Engineering
Github Skills (60)
timing9
panic9
protobuf8
mongodb8
backend8
rpc8
serverless-framework8
aws-lambda8
serialization8
redux8
maintenance8
mod-manager8
protocol-buffers7
nodejs7
file-watcher7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
roball24/browser-music
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:54 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
roball24/roball24.github.io
Jun 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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