Summary
Garrett Owen is a versatile software developer with 14 years of experience building products at Microsoft, AI startups, fintech, and as a longtime freelance engineer. He combines front-end expertise in React/TypeScript and React Native with backend work in PHP/Laravel and MySQL, having shipped everything from Electron in-car apps for autonomous trucks to marketing and reservation systems for major hotel brands. At Axon he helped modernize large-scale evidence and fleet products, and at Microsoft he contributed cross-language Azure SDK libraries with high test coverage and on-call production support. Comfortable working solo or on remote product teams, he also has hands-on experience in algorithmic crypto trading and placed in the top 20 at a 2018 Ethereum hackathon. Based in Vancouver, he brings a pragmatic, product-focused mindset and a track record of translating complex data sources into usable interfaces and tools.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Victoria
English, French