Samuel Allen
Engineering Manager Software Developer Lead at University of Michigan - SIMPL
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Allen is an engineering manager and hands-on software lead with 11+ years of experience building resilient cloud-native systems and web applications, currently leading development of surgical assessment and training tools at the University of Michigan. He blends front- and back-end expertise with devops and cloud architecture to design systems that run equally well on a Raspberry Pi or a multi-region, container-orchestrated platform. At SkySpecs he helped mature an event-driven platform that handled petabytes of data with 99%+ uptime, led a Kafka-to-Redpanda migration, and contributed to ISO 27001 readiness—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on reliability, security, and developer experience. A natural mentor and organizer, he runs developer touchpoints, onboards teams, and documents workflows to scale organizational capability. Outside work he prototpes both technological and musical projects and values time outdoors with family, a detail that underscores his balance of curiosity and groundedness.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, English, Bachelors, English at University of Washington
Github Skills (200)
parser10
azure-functions10
emberjs10
mobile-web10
ember10
aws-s310
serverless10
javascript10
secrets10
aws-apigateway10
serverless-applications10
vault10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
aws-lambda10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dehuszar/personal-site
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
My Personal Site
Contributions:30 PRs, 90 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years 7 months
reactnextjs
dehuszar/postcss-reference
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 83 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 1 month
rulesetsselectorscss-filesdefinedcss
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