Caleb Allen

Senior Software Engineer • Android Specialist • Systems Thinker

I'm Caleb Allen, a software engineer with 11 years of Android experience, currently based in London and previously Salt Lake City, UT and Los Angeles, CA. I have worked in environments including startups, Fortune 500s, and FAANG; see LinkedIn for a full history.

This site documents my personal projects and other open source contributions I have made.

Talks

REPL Without a Pause: Bringing VimBindings.jl to the Julia REPL MIT, JuliaCon 2023
Jurassic REPL: vi Finds a Way Eindhoven, JuliaCon 2024
An Experimental Search System Eindhoven, JuliaCon 2024

Open Source

VimBindings.jl — Author & Maintainer

An implementation of the Vim text editor written from scratch for the Julia programming language REPL. Used by researchers at Harvard, CERN, and MIT.
Horologist — Contributor

Google's open source library for Wear OS developers.
AndroidX — Contributor

Contributions to the Android Jetpack libraries for WearOS developers.