About

Curtis Allen is a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with over 15 years of experience in design and software development. He is proficient in a wide variety of programming languages, frameworks, databases, and open sourced products. Curtis is a major contributor to services hosted in an Amazon Web Services environment and is passionate about crafting highly scalable reliable software solutions from design to implementation and deployment. Currently, Curtis is a Staff Engineer at Slack where he is a major contributor and technical lead on Slack's Workflow Builder responsible for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). He was largely responsible for the product scaling from 0 to 1M+ users. Curtis is also the technical lead on implementing encryption within Workflow Builder and developed on-call training curriculum that included classroom instruction, war games, and written materials. Prior to Slack, Curtis worked at Robots and Pencils as a Principal Robot, where he was the primary technical architect and contributor on several client projects in a wide swath of domains, including EdTech, FinTech, and AI systems delivering high-quality software systems. He developed performant, secure cloud-hosted software solutions using Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. Curtis is an expert in Kubernetes, Terraform, and distributed systems. Curtis holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Mathematics from New Mexico State University. He is proficient in SRE, Web, Senior Software Engineer, DevOps, Terraform, Software Engineer, AI, Kubernetes, Ansible, Microservices, Python, Golang, and Java. Curtis is a highly experienced and skilled DevOps Engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions.