Kevin Owocki
Co-Founder at WEST Software Services Inc
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Owocki is a seasoned founder and software leader with 13+ years building scalable web and blockchain systems, best known as co-founder of Gitcoin where he designs mechanisms to fund public goods on Ethereum. He blends hands-on engineering (Python, Django, Solidity, MySQL/Postgres) with product and team leadership, having grown engineering orgs up to 24 people and led startups through acquisition and VC raises. Kevin runs multiple ventures including WEST Software Services and a venture studio for regenerative web projects, and he’s active in the blockchain community as an organizer and early Solidity practitioner. His work has been covered by major outlets from The New York Times to WIRED, yet he still maintains a playful hacker ethos—“i spin bits for fun & profit”—and keeps side projects and writing on owocki.com and GitHub.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Delaware
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Github Skills (200)
trading-bot10
cryptocurrency10
eas10
browser10
firefox10
api10
compound10
python-interface10
child-process10
hardhat10
slack-bot10
web3py10
eip10
smart-contracts10
wallet10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
gitcoinco/GIPs
Mar 2018 - May 2021
Gitcoin Improvement Proposals
Contributions:11 PRs, 24 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 2 months
proposalsblockchaingitcoinbitcoinimprovement
EthereumOpenSubscriptions/EIPs
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 7 months
ethereumimprovement-proposalblockchainsoliditysmart-contracts
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