Toph Allen
Software Engineer at RStudio PBC
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolToph Allen is a software engineer in New York with 13 years of experience translating epidemiology and data science into production-ready software. After a decade at EcoHealth Alliance advancing predictive models for disease emergence—from research scientist to director of data science—Toph joined RStudio PBC to bridge scientific modeling and developer tooling. They combine rigorous public health training (MPH, Columbia) with hands-on software practice honed at the Recurse Center, making them adept at turning complex statistical workflows into maintainable systems. Notably, Toph’s background in field-facing research and voter organizing gives them a rare blend of technical depth and real-world stakeholder empathy that informs pragmatic, user-centered engineering.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Sociology, BA, Sociology at University of Southern CaliforniaMPH, Epidemiology, MPH, Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthRecurse Center
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Github Skills (192)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ecohealthalliance/yenpathy
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Yen's K Shortest Paths in R, Quickly
Contributions:68 commits, 2 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 year 10 months
k-shortest-pathsrstatsyenpathscarbon-emissions
toph-allen/voronoms
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
An approximate set of admin area polygons linked to and generated from the GeoNames gazetteer
Contributions:1 release, 37 commits, 2 PRs in 11 months
polygonsadmingeonamesgazetteerapproximate
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