Timothy Allen

IT Director, Advanced Initiatives at Wharton Research Data Services at The Wharton School

About

Tim joined Wharton Research Data Services in 2008, after working for local companies and starting a few of his own. Having started programming at age six, he is currently an organizer of the Philadelphia Python Users Group, DjangoCon US, and a member of the Python Software Foundation and Django Software Foundation. Tim is an avid hockey fan, was the first person to sell real world items for virtual microcurrency long before Bitcoin, and enjoys beating his head against brick walls (as demonstrated by his passion for coding, cycling in Philadelphia, and never-ending quest to get his cats to behave). A life-long Philadelphia resident, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 with an individualized major, “Computer Aided Information Acquisition”.

Timothy Allen has presented the following presentations

    Timothy Allen Introspective RESTful APIs with PostgreSQL and Django at PGConf Local: Philly 2017 [PgConf.US]
    Permission based access from your data to the world.

    presented by Timothy Allen

    Databases are the elephants in the room of modern technology: mature, reliable, sturdy fixtures in the technology world that have served us well for many decades. Databases stay relevant by continuing to reinvent themselves to serve new technologies further up the stack. The latest buzzwords further up that stack are APIs and Microservices, so prevalent that it is hard to see a tech advertiseme...

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