take me home, country roads
Nice to meet you!
My name is Nick Allen and I design and build software for a living. I live in Santa Monica with my lovely wife and our fluffy dog from the other page.
I was born in Eugene, Oregon and I grew up outside of Portland -- so I love the Blazers, the Seahawks, pine trees, and I kind of miss the rain. I went to Stanford where I studied Product Design.
I love playing music (piano/drums), cars, chess, golf, interior design, pasta, and snowboarding in the winter. I believe an Arnold Palmer is the superior drink.
Education & Work
- 2009 - 2013
- Stanford University
BS - Engineering - Product Design - 2013 - 2018
- Snap Inc
- 2018 - 2020
- Quibi
- 2020 - 2024
- Route
- 2024 - Present
- HeyGen
Selected Patents
- US20160085863A1
- "Geofilters" - User interface to augment an image
- US10133705B1
- "Discover" - Multichannel system
- US20190372991A1
- "Our Stories Authentication" - Geo-fence authorization provisioning
- US20180351903A1
- "Chat for Snapchat" - Ephemeral group chat
- US10476830B2
- "Stories" - Ephemeral message galleries
- US10284508B1
- "Saving Snap to Memories" - Ephemeral message galleries with opt-in permanence
- US10686899B2
- "Trophies" - Messaging achievement pictograph display system
- WO2018081013A1
- "Bitmoji Filters for Snapchat" - Generating and displaying customized avatars in media overlays
- US10523625B1
- "Group Stories" - Restricted group content collection
- US10609036B1
- "Official Stories" - Social media post subscribe requests for buffer user accounts
- US20200296316A1
- "Vertical Scrubber" - Interface method to manipulate video timecode
- US20200296317A1
- "Turnstyle" - Media content presentation
- US11411895B2
- "Custom Stories" - Generating aggregated media content items for a group of users
- US20210191966A1
- "Our Stories Curation Tool" - Generation, curation, and presentation of media collections
- US11317240B2
- "Our Stories" - Geo-location based event gallery
- US18095473
- "Universal Tracking Account" - Systems and methods for account creation
- US11522822B1
- "Stories Expiration" - Ephemeral gallery elimination based on gallery and message timers