Joe Owen
Engineering Manager at LHV Bank
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Owen is an engineering manager with eight years’ experience leading teams and delivering resilient Java microservices across banking, public sector, and transport domains. Currently at LHV Bank after progressing from lead engineer, he combines hands-on development with people leadership, having previously overseen a 12-person delivery team and driven major pipeline and release improvements. He has a strong operational bent—cutting regression test runtimes by 75%, architecting modular KYC services, and improving incident and early life support practices. Comfortable in cloud-native environments (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift, AWS) and with databases like Oracle and Postgres, he blends DevOps, testing, and mentoring to accelerate delivery. Known for fostering collaborative practices such as pair and mob programming, he helps engineers ramp up autonomy while maintaining high quality standards. Based in Leeds, he brings a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach that balances technical depth with clear stakeholder communication.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Brighouse High Sixth Form CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Bradford
Github Skills (9)
aws10
continuous-integration10
testing10
python9
aws-cloud9
developer-tools9
localstack9
serverless8
react-hooks3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LHV-UK/interest-calculator-api-tech-test
May 2024 - Dec 2025
This repository contains an example application for an interest calculator that is used for SEIT technical test.
Contributions:6 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
joeowen22/surveycollectiontool
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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