# Tate Allen

> Senior Software Engineer at CREED

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tate

Github: https://github.com/tallen11
Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/tallen11

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ CREED
Jan 2022 – Present
Full stack development work building on multiple codebases including React web apps and a serverless backend running on AWS Lambda with MongoDB as the data store.

Common AWS service usage such as S3, Lambda, Cognito, CloudWatch, etc

Also managing a cross platform mobile app built with React Native. 

TypeScript.

### Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead @ PaymentWorks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Full Stack Engineer with backend emphasis
Python, Django, AWS
- Have been leading efforts and small team in enhancing PaymentWorks' sanction list monitoring service, further increasing fraud protection and user experience for customers as well as lowering internal support costs
- Aided in improving and optimizing PaymentWorks' bank verification service, strengthening verification robustness and reducing internal verification and support costs
- Worked with teammate to implement Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) for PaymentWorks app
- Created proof of concept pipeline for deploying and testing standalone React apps to AWS S3 using Jenkins and AWS that is used by the engineering team to create internal tools and applications
- Designed & implemented Docker Compose based CI/deployment pipeline for new microservice using AWS ECR and ECS allowing for tracked/versioned clusters of containers to be tested, promoted through different environments, and deployed

### React Native Developer @ Self Employed
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Built cross platform mobile app for a client using React Native and JavaScript. The app utilized an existing REST API.

### iOS App Developer @ Self Employed
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Remote
- Designed and built an augmented reality iOS app for a client using Swift, ARKit and Core Data.

### App Development Consultant @ Gift Hero
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Remote
Built and published cross platform, iOS and Android share extension app for Gift Hero Inc. utilizing Gift Hero’s backend via a REST API with React Native and JavaScript.

### App Development Consultant @ SmartPak
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Remote
- Built and published cross platform location-based iOS and Android app and web page with React Native in JavaScript as well as native functionality implemented in Objective-C and Java.
- Built “serverless” backend using JavaScript and AWS technologies (Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, SNS, SES, etc).


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computing
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tateallen

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Last updated: 2026-03-22