Hi, I’m Allen!
I’m a software engineering executive and technology enthusiast based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Having worked for companies big and small, I’m most energized by the dynamic potential of startups, early in their journeys. I’m at my best helping scale teams while up-leveling the people that I work with.
With my wife and two kids, we enjoy the quiet serenity of reading, nearby national parks, and simple crafts. I get overly excited by new gadgetry, and nurture a bad habit of picking up new hobbies. Since 2011, this site has collected my regular, late-night musings.
Typing the Classics
So one of the things you do, when you build mechanical keyboards is test for typing…
A Year with the Dygma Defy Keyboard
This post is a follow-up to the first impressions post I wrote about 9 months ago—rounded up…
A Kiddom Retrospective
When I left my role at Mystery Science in the summer of 2021, I was left…a bit wanting. I…
Generated
Despite my optimism for Generative AI and its floor-raising use cases, we might have already…
Review: Keep Calm and Code On
Keep Calm and Code On is a book that discusses what it takes to develop software…
Reservations Everywhere
Our family took a vacation this summer in Japan. The island nation has always been a popular…
Limited Technology
As an unabashed fan of both e-ink technologies as well as reading, I regularly look for and…
Review: Quantum Supremacy
I went through a theoretical physics phase in high school. Our school only offered the…
Gaming to Engage
Remember when gamification was the technique du jour a decade ago? The software industry…