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 a seasoned software engineering leader with more than 20 years building web-based software and over a decade in leadership roles. He currently serves as Engineering Manager and Software Developer Lead at the University of Michigan - SIMPL, guiding teams to deliver scalable, secure systems. At SkySpecs, he led platform initiatives—from migrating Kafka to Redpanda and deploying AWS EKS to driving ISO 27001 readiness, cloud observability with Grafana, and mentoring engineers across a Platforms team. He values elegant, real-world solutions and has breadth across frontend, backend, DevOps, and cloud architecture, with a mindset of building cross-environment software that runs from Raspberry Pi to multi-region cloud deployments. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he enjoys tinkering and family time outdoors, bringing a pragmatic, collaborative approach to shipping reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, English, Bachelors, English at University of Washington
Github Skills (200)
parser10
azure-functions10
emberjs10
mobile-web10
ember10
aws-s310
serverless10
javascript10
secrets10
aws-apigateway10
serverless-applications10
vault10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
aws-lambda10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dehuszar/personal-site
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
My Personal Site
Contributions:30 PRs, 90 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years 7 months
reactnextjs
dehuszar/postcss-reference
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:6 releases, 83 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 1 month
rulesetsselectorscss-filesdefinedcss
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