Tim Allen

Software Engineer

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States27 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Extensive experience in Python and Django development.
  • Led large-scale web projects for financial research.
  • Strong community builder and event organizer.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong web development and community engagement skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

PythonDjangoDevopsTechnical ArchitectureWeb DevelopmentTechnical DesignEvent Organization

Other Skills

PostgreSQLAnsibleLinuxCommunicationSocial NetworkingUser Interface DesignMobile ApplicationsSocial MediaSEOStrategyInformation ArchitectureVirtual WorldsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)HTML5Markdown Optimization

About

I am very happily employed and not looking for a job. My Open Source contributions can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/FlipperPA/ I began programming at the age of 6, on Apple ][+ and Commodore Pets, before moving on to Apple ][e and IBM PC basica, followed by GWbasic. I started Pascal in junior high school and moved on to C in high school and college, where I also started to toy with databases. During college, I encountered this thing called the World Wide Web in its infancy, and it changed EVERYTHING, leading me to learn HTML, Perl, JavaScript, and well, everything else from there. These days, I live, eat, and breathe Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and Ansible... with some C, SQL Server, and JavaScript frameworks thrown in for good measure. Working with people has always been a pleasure for me: sharing ideas, working together, and realizing success. Specialties: making earthlings feel comfortable with technology; bringing people together; community building; event organization; getting things done.

Experience

27 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
17 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

The wharton school

5 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Technical DesignDevOpsTechnical ArchitecturePythonDjangoPostgreSQL

IT Technical Director

May 2019Nov 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

AnsibleTechnical DesignDevOpsLinuxCommunicationTechnical Architecture

IT Director, Advanced Initiatives; Wharton Research Data Services

Jan 2014May 2019 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • The Advanced Initiatives team develops new products to be including in the WRDS suite. This includes the WRDS RESTful API, financial research products, as well as tools for use in financial education.
AnsibleTechnical DesignDevOpsLinuxCommunicationTechnical Architecture

IT Director, Web; Wharton Reseach Data Services

Promoted

Jun 2010Dec 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • I led a team of talented web developers and database engineers to create an interactive, straightforward web site which allows our 40,000+ users to get the financial data they need to perform their financial research. Users include corporate customers, University faculty, staff, and students at the PhD, masters and undergraduate level at over 350 institutions world-wide including Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago.
AnsibleTechnical DesignLinuxCommunicationTechnical ArchitectureWeb Development

Senior Programmer/Analyst; Wharton Research Data Services

Dec 2008May 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Leverage several languages and databases including Python, Perl, SQL Server, SAS, PHP, and a full web stack, WRDS aggregates financial data from the NYSE from many sources, and makes it available for financial researchers world wide. In addition to web access, we provide our users access to the WRDS Cloud powered by Oracle Grid Engine via SSH and PC-SAS.
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationWeb Development

Electric sheep company

Senior Web Development Consultant

Jan 2006Jan 2007 · 1 yr

  • Led a team to transition the SLBoutique.com web site to ownership by Electric Sheep Company after the sale was completed.
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationWeb Development

The future united / second life community convention

Founder, Lead Organizer

Jan 2005Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

  • The Future United runs the yearly Second Life Community Convention, the largest yearly gathering of virtual world enthusiasts. In 2007, nearly 1000 people attended the convention in Chicago. The group was founded by five of the movers and shakers of the virtual worlds scene in 2005, and the group has grown since then, officially becoming a non-profit in 2006.
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationEvent Organization

Slboutique.com

Founder, President, Coder

Jan 2004Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

  • SLBoutique.com was the premier web-based marketplace for creators of virtual objects in Second Life to sell their items. CNN once referred to it as the "Amazon of the virtual world."
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationWeb Development

Crompco

IT Director

Jan 2003Jan 2008 · 5 yrs

  • Crompco purchased the web portal code from my startup, Digital Content Solutions, and hired the DCS technology team in the Fall of 2003. The award-winning Crompco web portal and the underlying database have been recognized within the industry as the gold standard for maintaining testing records for gasoline stations to ensure environmental compliance at a federal, state, and local level. At the time of my employment, it was written in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Flash, and automatically exported data to many popular formats for reporting, such as Excel and Crystal Reports.
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationWeb Development

Digital content solutions

Founder, Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2001Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

  • Digital Content Solutions created distance learning content management solutions and field data collection and testing web portals. Clients included The Einstein Academy, Flashlink, TRM Corporation, and Crompco Corporation. In 2003, the company amicably split. David Johns, the other founder, continued with distance learning under Digital Schooling, while Timothy Allen and the tech team moved to Crompco to become their technology department.
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationWeb Development

Einstein academy charter school

Consultant

Jan 2001Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

  • Led a team developing the web site for the online charter school.
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationWeb Development

Usabancshares

IT Director

Jan 2000Jan 2001 · 1 yr

  • Led a team developing branded vanity web sites for brands like David Bowie and the New York Yankees, tied via API into the back-end MISER banking system.
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationWeb Development

Bankphiladelphia / usabancshares.com

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 1999Jan 2000 · 1 yr

  • Developed program to accept applications for accounts, built customer service tools, engineered the database, wrote COBOL middleware applications for financial transactions, and a suite of marketing tools. (Since renamed Nova Savings Bank)
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationWeb Development

Cdnow.com

Senior Web Developer

Jan 1998Jan 1999 · 1 yr

  • I was promoted from a design assistant to Sr. Web Developer over my year and a half at CDnow, and worked on the music genre sections, the first-ever digital downloads store, the content management system, the rewards program, and much more.
Technical DesignLinuxCommunicationWeb Development

Education

University of Pennsylvania

B.A. — Computer Aided Information Acquisition

Jan 1992Jan 1996

Episcopal Academy

Jan 1980Jan 1992

Oracle Education Center

Developer — SQL & PL/SQL

Jan 1999Jan 1999

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