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Hi, I'm Evan Allen

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GitHub, DevOps & Platform Engineering Consultant

I help organizations modernize their software delivery by designing secure, scalable GitHub platforms and guiding teams through complex migrations, CI/CD modernization, and developer enablement.

My focus areas include:

  • GitHub Enterprise Cloud & Enterprise Managed Users (EMU)
  • GitHub Actions and CI/CD modernization
  • GitHub Advanced Security enablement
  • Azure DevOps, GitLab, Bitbucket, and SVN migrations
  • Platform engineering, governance, and repository standards
  • Copilot adoption and AI-assisted developer workflows

Certifications

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What I Do

GitHub Enterprise & Platform Strategy

  • Design and implement GitHub Enterprise Cloud environments for large organizations
  • Lead GitHub Enterprise Cloud → EMU migration planning and adoption
  • Build governance models using repository rulesets, custom properties, branch protections, and automation
  • Create scalable standards for enterprise repository management, identity, and access
  • Help organizations establish secure developer platforms with repeatable best practices

GitHub Actions & CI/CD Modernization

  • Architect GitHub Actions workflows and reusable automation patterns
  • Migrate pipelines from Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bitbucket, and other legacy systems
  • Build secure release pipelines with environments, approvals, secrets, and deployment gates
  • Develop custom GitHub Actions, composite actions, and migration tooling
  • Improve developer productivity through faster, more reliable automation

AI & Developer Productivity

  • Help teams adopt GitHub Copilot effectively and responsibly
  • Build local AI-assisted tooling for software modernization and migration scenarios
  • Explore local Meta Llama workflows that convert GitLab CI pipelines into GitHub Actions workflows while keeping all data on-device
  • Architect and develop MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that automate complex GitHub administration tasks, enabling teams to streamline org-level operations, enforce governance policies, and manage repositories at scale through intelligent, AI-driven workflows

GitHub Advanced Security & DevSecOps

  • Deliver GitHub Advanced Security enablement and training
  • Implement code scanning, secret scanning, Dependabot, and security governance
  • Create enterprise-wide playbooks for GitHub Advanced Security rollout
  • Design policy-driven security automation using repository metadata and custom properties

Impact

  • Migrated 10,000+ repositories from Azure DevOps, GitLab, Bitbucket, and SVN to GitHub
  • Delivered GitHub training and enablement sessions to 500+ developers, administrators, and platform teams
  • Designed enterprise governance standards for GitHub Enterprise Cloud and EMU environments
  • Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines that improved release speed, consistency, and security
  • Reduced Azure cloud costs by 15% through infrastructure optimization and automation

Technical Expertise

GitHub Enterprise Cloud | EMU | GitHub Actions | GitHub Advanced Security
GitHub Copilot | Codespaces | Azure DevOps | GitLab | Bitbucket | SVN
Azure | Kubernetes | Docker | Terraform | Python | PowerShell
GraphQL | REST APIs | CI/CD | DevSecOps | Platform Engineering

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  1. MandalAutomations/Rag-Chat-Bot MandalAutomations/Rag-Chat-Bot Public

    Rag-Chat-Bot is a Retrieval-Augmented Generation chatbot that leverages OpenAI's GPT-4 and semantic search with ChromaDB to answer user queries using your own chat data. Load chats from CSV, store …

    Python

  2. MandalAutomations/Ollama-Devcontainer MandalAutomations/Ollama-Devcontainer Public template

    This project provides a ready-to-use development environment for Python projects with integrated LLM (Language Model) capabilities using Ollama. It includes a pre-configured VS Code Dev Container s…

    Python 1 1

  3. MandalAutomations/Vector-Visualizer-OpenAI MandalAutomations/Vector-Visualizer-OpenAI Public

    Generate OpenAI embeddings with LangChain and visualize their semantic relationships in 3D using PCA + Matplotlib.

    Python

  4. MandalAutomations/Ollama-Embedding-Issue-Ops MandalAutomations/Ollama-Embedding-Issue-Ops Public

    Visualize word embeddings in 3D using PCA and Matplotlib. Generates embeddings with a Llama model (via Ollama), reduces them to 3D, and plots them for easy comparison. Perfect for exploring semanti…

    Jupyter Notebook

  5. Octo-Py Octo-Py Public

    OctoPy is a Python library that provides a comprehensive interface to GitHub's API, specifically focused on managing GitHub Copilot, Rulesets, and Custom Properties for organizations and repositories.

    Python

  6. MandalAutomations/GitHub-Documentation-Rag-Agent MandalAutomations/GitHub-Documentation-Rag-Agent Public

    GitHub Documentation Agent is a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that transforms how developers interact with GitHub's extensive documentation. The project automatically ingests GitHub's…

    Jupyter Notebook