Allison Welch

Senior Engineering Manager at Ford | ex-Boston Consulting Group

Ford

Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)

12+ years experience

Stanford GSB

English

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Overview

I lead iOS apps at Ford in Seattle. Moved 80% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Grew the iOS team from 6 to 25 engineers. Before that: Boston Consulting Group and Lyft. Most at home with XCTest and UIKit.

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People who want to build this with me
Questions about iOS apps
Second opinions on UIKit decisions
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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills

CombineUIKitCore DataSwiftUISwiftXCTest

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

closes in 3 months

Looking for a go-to-market co-founder for field-service scheduling for freight forwarders

The idea: Field-service scheduling for freight forwarders
Stage: Prototype
I bring: 6 years in iOS apps
Looking for: Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment: Full-time after funding
Location: Seattle or remote

I bring 16 years of iOS apps (currently Ford). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

Seattle, WA · remote OKswiftxctestcombine

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Experience

Senior Engineering Manager
Oct 2024 - Present
Ford · 2 yr · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 9%.
- Moved 77% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
iOS Engineer
Dec 2022 - Oct 2024
Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 30 a week to 4.
Staff iOS Engineer
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Lyft · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 6.
- Wrote the Combine service that now handles 71 million requests a day.
Staff iOS Engineer
Jul 2018 - Jun 2020
Target · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 862ms to 120ms.
iOS Engineer
Dec 2014 - Jul 2018
Block · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 34 minutes to under 6.

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Education

Stanford GSB
MBA, Business Administration
2011 - 2013
University of Wisconsin–Madison
BS, Computer Science
2005 - 2009

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