Gavin Owens
Founder, CEO at Tonk
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGavin Owens is a founder and technical leader with 12 years of experience building developer tools, design-driven products, and scalable backend systems from startup to acquisition. He co-founded Deco Software (creator of the Deco React Native IDE) which was acquired by Airbnb, then served as a Design Technologist at Airbnb where he bridged design and engineering. Gavin has since continued his entrepreneurial path as Founder & CEO of Tonk after a stint as founder-in-residence at Entrepreneur First, blending product vision with hands-on engineering. His background includes production ML and search infrastructure work at Yahoo and practical systems research during internships and academic research at UIUC. A creative technologist and new media poet, he combines a design sensibility with low-level mobile and iOS build expertise—evident from contributions to Deco’s iOS build and simulator tooling. Based in London, he focuses on shipping tools that make complex developer workflows feel intuitive.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - CSE, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science - CSE at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (6)
ios10
mobile-development10
build-system9
cli8
xcode7
electron5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
decosoftware/deco-ide
May 2016 - Nov 2016
The React Native IDE
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 79 commits, 89 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Gavin primarily contributed to the Deco IDE project, focusing on iOS-specific build and launch processes. Their commits demonstrate efforts to incorporate a license file, modify build versions, and integrate a scriptable CLI system. They also worked on iOS simulator configurations, including options for iOS and Android emulators.
react-nativereactide
gdowens/deco-ide
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 116 pushes, 44 branches in 5 months
react-nativereactide
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