William Allen
R&D Engineer at Rensselaer Center for Open Source
Town of Clifton Park, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Allen is an R&D engineer with a decade of software experience, currently developing research-driven systems at Kitware and maintaining the Submitty open-source grading platform. He holds both BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and focuses on high-performance databases and distributed systems. William blends full-stack development with attention to UI/UX—improving TA grading interfaces, plagiarism tooling, and forum features in Submitty—showing he cares about both backend rigor and end-user workflows. His background includes mentoring and tutoring roles that reinforce clear technical communication and pedagogy. Based in Clifton Park, NY, he brings practical academic training to production-grade open-source and research software.
10 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteNon degree seeking, Non degree seeking at Concord University
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Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Submitty/Submitty
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Homework Submission, Automated Grading, and TA grading system.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2157 reviews, 248 commits, 443 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:William contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the Submitty system. They addressed UI/UX issues within the TA grading interface by fixing spacing problems between panels. They also worked on the back-end to fix a page displaying files related to plagiarism and also improved the UI/UX of the plagiarism results page. Additionally, the user modified the forum and poll UI/UX with bug fixes.
reactsubmittygrading-systemhomework-serverteaching-tools
williamjallen/drake
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 34 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 9 months
model-basedmodel-based-designroboticsverification
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