Summary
Joshua Owens is a seasoned software engineer and serial founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building web, desktop, and cloud-native systems. Currently co-founder of Newb and Virtue Reality, he blends devops rigor—AWS, Docker, Linux—and product-focused engineering to ship scalable features like the WorkplaceOS microservices he deployed at Raise Commercial Real Estate. He’s comfortable leading teams through migrations, SOC2 readiness, and complex ETL/UI work, having overseen everything from Kubernetes/ECS builds to Datastage pipelines. Joshua favors elegant integrations and low-tech solutions in high-tech contexts, which helps him spot efficiency gains that others miss. His current interests in AI, gaming, and blockchain inform his work on immersive, socially impactful experiences, reflecting a creative technical curiosity that traces back to film and performance-capture infrastructure projects early in his career.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Pasadena City College