Ryan Allen
Software Engineer at Luminary
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Allen is a pragmatic software engineer based in New York with 10 years of experience building scalable backend systems and operational excellence for security-focused products. At Yubico he progressed from intern to senior engineer and backend technical lead, driving architecture improvements, on-call readiness, and cross-functional collaboration with Product and UX. He repeatedly owned migrations and GA readiness—most notably re-architecting a legacy OTP validation service and spearheading logging, monitoring, alerting, and testing for an enterprise logistics service. He mentors teammates, leads technical discussions, and translates product questions into robust implementation plans. Now at Luminary, he continues to focus on reliable, production-grade services with an eye for both developer workflows and user-facing impact. His background in embedded and C/C++ work, plus a CS master’s from UC Santa Barbara, gives him uncommon depth across hardware-adjacent systems and cloud-native backends.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Westmont High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (41)
yubico10
client-library8
entity8
one-time7
php-class7
javascript7
cdp7
feature-flags7
anyevent7
python7
react7
passwords6
key-storage6
typescript6
otp6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scalableinternetservices/Podz
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:27 PRs, 58 pushes, 38 branches in 2 months
rmallensb/Utility
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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