Alisdair Owens
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolAlisdair Owens is a Principal Engineer at AWS RDS in Vancouver with 12+ years of experience building and operating complex distributed systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton and began his career at IBM Hursley working on WebSphere's distributed transaction coordination before moving to Amazon in 2016. He specializes in highly parallel, concurrent web services and database systems, pairing deep research training with hands-on production engineering. Comfortable across development, operation, and evolution of large-scale services, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability and scalability. A UK transplant to Canada, he blends enterprise-grade system design with a curiosity for the inner workings of databases and transaction coordination.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (39)
rust-language10
rust-lang10
postgresql-database10
standard-library10
crate10
compiler10
lock-free10
rust10
allocator10
garbage-collection10
postgresql9
concurrent9
synchronization9
rfc9
data-structures8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AlisdairO/concurrent-hash-map
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 6 months
hashrusthash-mapmapconcurrent
AlisdairO/rust
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:46 pushes, 27 branches in 9 months
concurrent-saferustpracticalcompilerprogramming-language
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