Jonathan Owens
Principal Software Engineer at Huntress
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Owens is a Principal Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 15 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure, from bare-metal Ruby/Java fleets to cellular Kubernetes on AWS. He specializes in containerization, cloud migration, and FinOps—having driven multi-million-dollar cost reductions and implemented fleet-level cost visibility (CloudZero across 1000+ machines). At New Relic he architected massive time-series and Cassandra clusters, led migrations that grew infrastructure from hundreds to thousands of hosts, and designed deployment systems that cut engineer hours for updates by 90%. More recently he codified cost-saving programs at Forcepoint that reduced cloud spend by 40% in a year and built integrations for Oracle Cloud unit cost reporting. Comfortable in Ruby with growing Go skills, he pairs deep hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership and a habit of documenting alignment in Google Docs to ensure teams ship reliably. His open-source contributions include operational tooling for Docker fleets, reflecting a practical focus on deployability and observability.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA Computer Science, Associate of Arts - AA Computer Science at Edmonds CollegeBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (18)
docker10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
automation9
automations9
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
linux6
regex6
puppet6
ruby6
nagios6
monitoring6
redis6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic/centurion
Aug 2014 - May 2020
A mass deployment tool for Docker fleets
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 58 commits, 34 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on improving the deployment and operational aspects of the Docker-based application. They added features to control container stop timeouts, enabled host networking support, and modified how containers are stopped. Additionally, the user implemented enhancements to the health check process, improving the reliability of container validation and logging, and addressed issues related to container name resolution.
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newrelic/insights-about-pagerduty
Apr 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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