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I’m Allan Collins, a senior backend engineer with 25+ years in web development and 10+ years fully remote. I specialize in scalable WordPress (Core contributions), backend architecture, APIs, headless builds, and performance for high-traffic media. I’m known for calm execution on high-stakes incidents, pragmatic mentoring, and raising code quality through standards and reviews.
I’m seeking a fully remote Senior/Staff role on a collaborative team shipping resilient content platforms.
Skills
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer at Penske Media Corporation
March 1, 2023 - PresentBuilt and shipped Orange Logic + Getty API integrations directly into the WordPress Media Library; projected 10–20% cost reduction and ~25% time savings per story. Owned on-call for critical incidents; triaged performance issues with New Relic, Elasticsearch, and MySQL to keep brands online. Mentored devs (pairing/swarming), led security-minded reviews, and drove coding standards incl. improved GitHub PR templates.
Senior Engineer at XWP
March 1, 2023 - September 26, 2025Led two Drupal 7 to WordPress VIP migrations; hardened performance and contributed to the XCurrent performance plugin.
Senior Software Developer at Alley
November 1, 2020 - September 26, 2025Delivered WordPress projects with headless React and VIP Go; implemented Elasticsearch-backed search features and monitoring.
Senior Web Engineer at 10up
July 1, 2019 - September 26, 2025Supported Managed Services: Elasticsearch offering and SiteWatch monitoring; reviewed third-party code for a large multisite; mentored juniors. Contributed to open source projects incl. ElasticPress.
Senior WordPress Engineer at XWP
April 1, 2018 - September 26, 2025Maintained two high-traffic VIP Classic sites; supported a major magazine redesign.
Project Lead at Crowd Favorite
October 1, 2017 - September 26, 2025Led managed-services work overseeing two developers.
Senior Web Engineer / Web Engineer at 10up
August 1, 2017 - September 26, 2025Emphasized security, performance, and functionality; contributed to ElasticPress and Solr Power; improved team work-flows.
Freelance Web Developer at Collins Internet
July 1, 2014 - September 26, 2025Built custom sites and web apps for SMBs/non-profits (WordPress, CodeIgniter, Drupal, PHP/MySQL, jQuery).
Full Stack Web Developer at GuestStream
December 1, 2013 - September 26, 2025Created the Vacation Rental Platform (SaaS) integrating multiple SOAP/REST booking APIs; shipped iOS/Android guest apps and an admin web app for property managers.
Design Team Lead at Blizzard Internet Marketing
May 1, 2009 - September 26, 2025Led a team of five; built custom WP themes/plugins and PHP/MySQL apps.
Education
B.S. in Organizational Management in Project Management at Colorado Christian University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2016Qualifications
Industry Experience
Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Professional Services
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