Allen Geary

About Allen Geary

An accomplished and resourceful technology professional with extensive experience in large-scale application implementations specializing in large scale application performance. Hands-on leader with proven ability to contribute to the entire project and software development life cycle. Stays current with industry trends and best practices; communicates effectively with clients and colleagues; leads and mentors onshore and offshore teams. Go-to person to drive key corporate technology initiatives.Specialties: Software Engineering, Architecture and performance

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer

   PNC

   Jul 2025 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Led the security team in the design and development of new authentication services.• Reviewed and re-architected legacy authentication flows, improving performance by 20% while increasing log coverage to provide clearer visibility into user activity.• Drove comprehensive documentation of all existing systems, enabling safe, low-risk changes and faster onboarding.• Design and development of reusable libraries to seamlessly integrate split.io, Kafka and REDIS caching solutions

Education

• Community College of Allegheny County

  AAS, Microcomputer Systems Specialist

• Point Park University

  Computer Software Engineering

Skills

• Software Engineering / Java
• Application Architecture
• Websphere
• Core Java
• Soa
• Agile Methodologies
• Architecture
• Architectures
• Data Center
• Databases
• Distributed Systems
• Integration
• Java
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Leadership
• Management
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sdlc
• Sql
• Security
• Software Development
• Software Engineering
• Software Project Management
• Test Automation
• Web Applications
• Web Development
• Web Services
• Xml