# Ryan Allen

> Software Engineer at Luminary

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanallen

Aspiring Software Engineer looking to build innovation where it counts.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Luminary
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Yubico
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
Became the backend technical lead on the Enterprise Services team. Lead discussions on how to improve the service's architecture and became a leading voice in improving company work flows.

Worked closely with Product, UX and other stakeholders to review requirements and dive into the What and Why behind feature requests to better understand the How.

Mentored new members to the team, both junior and senior.

### Software Engineer II @ Yubico
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Spearheaded the operational excellence (logging, monitoring, alerting and testing) portion of an enterprise logistics service to get it ready for GA. Contributed to architecture and design meetings as well as leading the development of some features. Took it upon myself to deeply understand all parts of the product and quickly became the "go-to guy" for functional questions.

Successfully trained the rest of the team to become capable on call members of an older service.

### Software Engineer @ Yubico
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California
Migrated a legacy OTP validation service (YubiCloud) from a bare metal implementation to a highly scalable architecture with operational excellence and redundancy.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Yubico
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Developed a test suite using BDT (in the form of Python's Behave framework) for the YubiHSM, including: - ansible scripts to automate test environment provisioning
- creating CI build pipelines in both GitLab and Microsoft's VSTS
- deploying CI build agents with Docker on a VM and Linux box

Conducted testing and debugging to isolate and identify new firmware/hardware issues for the YubiKey.

Built the backend API for a self-serviced URL shortener webapp

### Software Engineer Internship @ Calix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Goleta, California
Worked on the platform team as a software developer (Primarily C/C++ with some Python and Bash)
- Improve system code functionality

Created an automation test bed for the platform team
- Python test scripts and test suites to daily upgrade and run manufacturing tests on devices to maintain functionality

### Research and Development Intern @ Apama Medical
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Campbell, CA
Worked with Quality Control to perform design verification testing, code review, and software validation.

### Research and Development Intern @ Apama Medical
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Campbell, CA
Worked as the primary assistant in lab experiments to test the specifications of the product.
Designed and implemented code, in C, for an embedded systems project that would create a support tool in manufacturing.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### High School
Westmont High School
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryan-allen-ba5560124

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Last updated: 2026-04-01