James Owen
Software Engineer at AppFolio Inc
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Owen is a senior product leader and technologist with 25+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise SaaS and AI-first products across real estate, healthcare, and enterprise software. He has a track record of taking 0->1 and 1->n products to market—most recently driving AI-enabled accounting and BI product lines that delivered double-digit ARR growth and rapid customer adoption. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and strategic product leadership, he has built platforms, led distributed development teams, and established company-wide product frameworks and promotion processes. James combines metrics-driven decision making and continuous discovery with a bias for action in ambiguous environments, repeatedly removing sales blockers and reducing churn. He’s equally entrepreneurial—co-founding a venture-backed startup that launched same-day delivery in the early 2000s—and practical, having personally shipped core platform features at Oracle and BEA. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs deep technical roots with customer-centric market instincts to drive measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Management Information Systems, BS, Management Information Systems at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (44)
handlebars10
clay10
html-renderer10
passportjs10
editing10
expressjs9
javascript9
indices9
cli9
partials9
renderer8
elastic8
elasticsearch8
nodejs7
middleware7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
clay/amphora-schedule
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 7 PRs in 3 years 6 months
TeamToes/Webpack-make
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 4 branches in 2 days
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