Allen Tom

Current

• Principal Software Architect at Yahoo!

Past

• Principal Software Engineer at AOL
• Software Engineer at Wink Communications

Education

• University of California at Berkeley

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• http://www.allentom.com

Allen Tom’s Experience

• Principal Software Architect

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  March 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  Architect and technical lead for Yahoo's identity and authentication services.

• Principal Software Engineer

  AOL

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)

  January 1997 — March 2005 (8 years 3 months)

  Technical Lead - Streaming Media Infrastructure
  - Designed architecture for AOL’s streaming audio and video platform for web applications. Designed architecture for inserting streaming video advertisements, resulting in over $12M in advertising revenue within 9 months of release.
  
  Technical Lead – AOL Streaming Media On Demand Streaming Server - Designed and implemented audio and video streaming server, streaming over 450TB monthly.
  
  Technical Lead – Netscape Network Dashboard
  Led team of 3 developers and 1 interface designer to build a web toolbar used by over 50 websites, receiving over 60 Million daily page views.
  
  · Technical Lead – AOL Shopping
  Led team of 4 developers to extend AOL’s web browser to provide price comparisons and to autofill credit card information when shopping online.
  
  · Developer - Netscape Directory Server (LDAP Server)

• Software Engineer

  Wink Communications

  (Internet industry)

  1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

  Hacked Interactive Television servers for cable TV set top boxes.

Additional Information

Allen Tom’s Websites:

• http://www.allentom.com

Allen Tom’s Groups:

•    OpenID Community Group