Summary
Mike Owens is an experienced IT Director and hands-on software engineer with 13+ years building and maintaining open-source infrastructure for a multi-office organization. He has been programming in C/C++ since 1996 and builds integration software across Linux and Windows, including Ruby and PostgreSQL extensions and Apache modules. Equally comfortable as a systems administrator, he designed and operates a complete in-house stack—networking, mail, web, databases, storage and monitoring—supporting ~200 users. Author of The Definitive Guide to SQLite, he combines deep database expertise with practical network and systems engineering. A Chemical Engineering graduate who loves UNIX and guitar, he brings long-term ownership, pragmatic technical writing, and a preference for open-source solutions.
13 years of coding experience
Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville