Senior Director of Engineering at Affirm. Previous gigs at Square, Counsyl, Google and other startups. I have some experience in building quality products and teams.
I've built web sites and apps for the past 10 years, working along all parts of the technology stack. (from design to front end to server to database)
I've worked for three startups in Silicon Valley and founded one myself. I've seen and participated in startups in all stages of growth, from ideation to traction to layoffs to big rounds of funding.
I've managed small features to large multi-team, multi-quarter projects, products, and high-functioning software engineering teams.
Through one phone call, Allen saved me weeks of time I would have spent researching on my own. He was incredibly knowledgeable and friendly.
To the point and insightful!
Great thank you! Just what I needed.
Very informative and helpful. Allen will make sure there is added value to every minute. Definitely recommended.
Allen offered great insights into team structure, code testing, and sprint cycles. Definitely recommend his quick insight and lessons learned.
Perfect - very quickly understood our product and the needs associated with it. The advice given was tailored to the size of the development team and relevant to our pre-existing infrastructure. Will definitely chat again
Holistic perspective; provided good examples to back his advice. Will definitely chat again.
Awesome, as always
Allen is a great expert, I got very good advice from him. Thank you!
Allen was able to quickly grasp our core issues and point to past experiences to provide useful feedback. Great person to talk to about software development.
So helpful - so insightful. He helped us out so much on the first project, speaking to him was an early priority for the second one. Thanks again, Allen!