Samuel Allen
Engineering Manager Software Developer Lead at University of Michigan - SIMPL
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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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 (166)
parser10
azure-functions10
ember10
serverless10
wine10
js-plugin10
javascript10
clap10
vault10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
cloud-services10
aws-lambda10
google-cloud-functions10
serverless-framework10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dehuszar/presentation-semantic-remapping
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Presentations Files for remapping visual to semantic class structures
Contributions:11 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
remappingsemanticvisualization
dehuszar/postcss-reference
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
[PostCSS] plugin for referencing selectors' rules from CSS files and defined rulesets.
Contributions:6 releases, 83 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 1 month
csspostcss
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