Katie Owen
Co-founder at transformative.nz
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolKatie Owen is a co-founder and technical leader with 13 years’ experience building people-focused digital transformation and design-driven technology from Auckland, New Zealand. At Transformative she oversees technical strategy and champions pragmatic, creative solutions that act as a virtual CDO and development team for growth-minded organisations. Her background spans hands-on design and development—running her own design studio Delicious Mint, lecturing in digital interactive design, and early work as a Drupal developer and thememaker—giving her a rare blend of creative, instructional and implementation expertise. She has co-founded product ventures like MyBitcoinSaver and coached businesses through capability growth, demonstrating an appetite for entrepreneurship beyond client services. Known for preferring “outside the box, not out-of-the-box” solutions, she balances boundary-pushing ideas with sensible stepwise delivery. Her mix of formal media design education, audio engineering training and practical studio experience surfaces in polished, user-centred digital strategies that scale.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Fashion Design, Fashion Design at Auckland University of TechnologyDiploma, Audio Engineering, Diploma, Audio Engineering at MAINZBachelor, Media Design, Bachelor, Media Design at Unitec
English
Github Skills (26)
fitness10
healthkit10
health10
python9
mqtt9
home-assistant9
iot9
home-automation9
raspberry-pi9
privacy8
automation8
docker-container8
asyncio8
react-native7
ios7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
katiebot/homebridge-electric-objects-eo1
Nov 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
katiebot/makey-makey-soundboard
Sep 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
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