Allen H.

Allen H. has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries. Allen began their career in 2015 as an IT Support and Accounting personnel at United Lens Company, Inc. From 2017 to 2017, they worked as an Office Manager and Courier at Courier Collective LLC.

In 2018, they joined Full Stack Applications where they held multiple roles. As a Software Engineer in the Backend team, they successfully scaled a picture gallery microservice to handle a high volume of requests. Allen utilized a tech stack consisting of React, Express.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, NGINX, AWS EC2, NewRelic, and Loader. Allen also served as a Software Engineer and Scrum Master in the Frontend team, where they created a production-ready room listing service. Allen implemented a RESTful API with Express/MongoDB and designed it to interact with other team members' services using a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Allen also achieved a perfect score of 100 in Google's PageSpeed Insights by optimizing page-load times. Additionally, they developed the Archive.org Batch Item Editor application using the MERN stack (MongoDB, React, Express.js, Node.js) and deployed it on Heroku.

In 2019, Allen joined Galvanize Inc as an Associate Instructor of Software Engineering. Allen assisted students in debugging their code and guided them towards industry best practices. Allen also mentored students in understanding fundamental computer science and full-stack web development concepts.

From 2019 to 2020, Allen was employed by Sonatype as a Junior Software Developer. Allen was part of a 3-member Developer/Community Experience team and focused on helping the Open Source and Developer Communities utilize Sonatype's open-source and free products effectively. Allen contributed to the development of a VS Code extension that allowed developers to scan their project dependencies for vulnerabilities and compliance with licensing/usage policies.

Currently, Allen works at Pathpoint as a Software Engineer II, a role they started in March 2021. Prior to that, from March 2020 to March 2021, they served as a Software Engineer in the same company. However, specific details of their responsibilities and achievements in these roles are not provided.

Allen H. attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2005 to 2010, where they earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Accounting and a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Economics. Additionally, they pursued an Advanced Software Engineering Program at Hack Reactor, although the specific start and end years are not provided.