Luke Allen
Chief Technology Officer at Allen Control Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Allen is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 13 years of experience building robotics, computer vision, and AI-driven systems across startups and defense. He co-founded Allen Control Systems to develop counter-drone robotic gun systems and previously scaled restaurant robotics as CTO of Bbot, which was acquired by DoorDash. A Navy veteran, he brings safety-critical engineering and program management experience from overseeing nuclear reactor control systems on aircraft carriers. He blends hands-on electrical engineering and rapid prototyping with software architecture, having shipped custom game engines and embedded sensor platforms earlier in his career. Based in Austin, he’s equally comfortable iterating hardware designs in the lab and leading teams to productionize ML and vision algorithms for real-world, mission-critical deployments.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (48)
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Github contributions (5)
LukeAllen/optimeyes
Jan 2015 - Mar 2021
Webcam-based eye pupil tracking and gaze estimation using Python and OpenCV
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 years 3 months
pythonwebcam
BbotLLC/python-escpos
Jul 2018 - Dec 2021
Clone of python-escpos with git submodule installed to allow use with pip install
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
pythonversion-controlpipescposgit-submodule
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