Damon Allison Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Al, Us

My primary role is designing and building the backend platform hundreds of thousands of Shipt shoppers rely on daily. From becoming a shopper, to finding, shopping and delivering orders, to getting paid - Shipt's shopper platform powers the entire shopper experience.My day to day responsibilities include planning, writing and reviewing code, helping drive key initiatives, and ensuring overall engineering quality, discipline, and attention to detail is exceptional across our teams.Shipt has an excellent engineering environment - strong software engineers, fundamentals, tooling, and leadership. Our stack is relatively simple (by design) but effective. it includes go, rails, python, kafka, redis, postgres, snowflake, docker, k8s, and a bunch of cloud infrastructure and monitoring tools.

I’m a highly motivated, results driven software engineer with a broad history in both start ups and high growth companies. I have experience in many roles within organizations - from Director of Engineering to Software Architect, to Staff Engineer. I love working with strong teams and building exceptional software. I’ve worked across the entire software stack, however my core strengths are designing and building large scale backend services and software platforms.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Branch is the first platform which provides early wage access to working people at absolutely no cost. As Director of Engineering, I'm responsible for building Branch's engineering culture, team, processes, and products. I have the opportunity to work with a passionate and dedicated team of engineers who are on a mission to build world class products which help people get ahead financially.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

As an Enterprise Architect, I'm responsible for software strategy, design and delivery for C.H. Robinson’s eCommerce division. I guide senior leadership on strategic IT initiatives from an engineering / product perspective as well with as software engineers from a design / implementation perspective.My responsibilities include:* Defining engineering vision and strategy for C.H. Robinson's eCommerce division.* Providing architectural design and oversight over team and product roadmaps.* Managing a team of Software Architects - providing direction, clearing roadblocks, and creating an environment which allows them to build exceptional engineering teams and products.* Contributor to shared source initiatives and various product teams, focused around architectural proof of concepts and implementations. * Recruiting, interviewing, evaluating and hiring of entry thru senior level software engineers. * Creating technical architecture diagrams and system designs for customer facing products.* Promoting and advancing Robinson’s adoption and use of mobile and cloud tools including Swift, Kotlin, React, Kafka, Mongo, Elastic, .NET Core, Node.js among others.* Technical due diligence of companies and products. Provide recommendations on build, buy, lease, and partnership decisions.* Building an engineering culture of open source, learning, and innovation. * Creating and leading study groups focused on continual learning of new platforms, patterns, languages, and tooling.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Served as a Software Architect for C.H. Robinson’s Navisphere Carrier team responsible for web and mobile products used by C.H. Robinson's carrier partners.Responsibilities included:* Providing product and technical vision, strategy, leadership, guidance, and mentoring for a team of 10 web, iOS, Android, and REST API engineers.* Building engineering teams responsible for C.H. Robinson's customer facing mobile and web applications.* Fostering a culture of product innovation, execution, and delivery.* Influencing product direction, roadmap, and execution for web, mobile, and API software platforms.* Leading proof-of-concept innovation projects across C.H. Robinson engineering teams.* Providing code reviews and low level engineering recommendations to senior engineers.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

As a Staff Software Engineer at Code42, I was responsible for writing key platform components and leading teams. Responsibilities included:* Defining and building low level messaging infrastructure, protocols, and components which power Code42's desktop client and cloud platform. * Leading Code42's iOS and Mac team.* Leading small product and feature teams.* Working along side other Code42 engineering leaders and Principal Architects to define Code42's cloud architecture.

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

As a Mobile Software Architect at Recursive Awesome, my primary responsibility was defining and delivering iOS and Android applications for our clients.Responsibilities included:* Working with customers to design and prototype applications which take advantage of native iOS and Android hardware and features. * Providing iOS training and mentoring for engineers and customers.* Assisting in sales and project estimating.* Helping staff and align engineers with client projects.

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Independent software consultant focused on .NET and iOS. Select client portfolio:* Travelers Insurance. Provided architectural direction and mentoring for Traveler's high risk insurance platform. Designed Traveler's insurance rating engine, real time quoting and policy creation, and payment system. Tools used included .NET, C#, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, XML / XSD, and SOAP.* GMAC RFC. At GMAC, I helped build a software package for evaluating and pricing home mortgages. Tools included BizTalk, Windows Forms, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, and ASP.NET* C.H. Robinson Worldwide. Provided architectural guidance to IT leadership and product teams around the adoption of Web Services and SOA development practices. Defined the patterns, tooling, and adoption techniques of web services within C.H. Robinson. Tools used included C#, WCF, WPF, IIS, SQL Server, XML, Visual Studio, MSMQ.* Data Recognition Corporation. Software engineer responsible for writing test scoring and analysis software for DRC's standardized testing division. Tools used included .NET, C#, SQL Server, IIS, MSMQ, XML, XSD, XSLT.* Cisco Systems. Wrote an iOS application for Cisco Media Hub devices which allowed users to view documents, photos, music, and videos stored on their Cisco Media Hub. Technologies used included Xcode, UIKit, Media Player, SQLite, Core Audio, AVFoundation, Networking.* MTS Systems. Software engineer on a team writing Test Suite - MTS's flagship software application which allowed Test Engineers to define and perform tests on a wide variety of materials, components, and structures. Tools and concepts used included C#, .NET, Windows Workflow, Windows Forms, I/O, Threading / Concurrency, high performance data structures.* TTX. Worked as a software engineer on a team building TTX's asset management and claims system. Technologies used included ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, Infragistics UI Controls, and .NET.

Co-owner of a mobile engineering consultancy helping companies design and create native iPhone applications. * Provided strategy, guidance, and engineering for companies embracing the iPhone platform and mobile for the first time.* Designed and built iOS applications for clients including General Mills, Cisco, Bacardi, Smarter Agent, and NPR.* Learned and used a wide variety of tools and libraries in the iOS platform including Xcode, UIKit, media, graphics, animation, location, security, Core Data, bluetooth, C, Objective-C, and many 3rd party libraries.

Redmond, Washington, Us

At Microsoft, I was a Senior Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services. I provided a combination of services to Microsoft's enterprise clients including architectural strategy, system design and reviews, and engineering team mentorship. Clients included GMAC RFC, Thomson Reuters, UnitedHealth Group, and C.H. Robinson.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed and developed an auto insurance rating applications. Technologies used were C#, ASP.NET, .NET, SQL Server, HTML, and Javascript.

Software consultant in BORN's Microsoft Business Unit. Averaged 100% utilization with an average of $200,000 annual revenue. Heavily involved with internal technical activities including speaking, publishing, and participating with internal software development projects.