Owein Reese
VP Of Engineering at Grey Bottle
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolOwein Reese is a hands-on VP of Engineering with 14 years of experience building and leading multi-disciplinary teams across startups and enterprise environments in New York. He combines deep technical craftsmanship—from C++ and Scala systems to cloud-native pipelines—with pragmatic operational ownership, including security, data governance, and SOC2 accreditation. Owein has repeatedly balanced hiring and team growth with product delivery, scaling organizations from small engineering groups to large distributed teams while keeping a focus on reliability and SLAs. His background spans high-performance scientific and financial systems through to large-scale ad tech and HR integrations, giving him uncommon fluency across numerical algorithms, data pipelines, and user-facing platforms. He still enjoys the applied math side of engineering—holding an M.S. in Industrial Mathematics—and brings that analytical rigor to architectural decisions and performance tuning.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Industrial Mathematics, M.S. Industrial Mathematics at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteB.S. Optics, B.S. Optics at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (73)
programming-language10
tail-recursion10
python10
generic-programming10
object-oriented-programming10
compiler-plugin10
scala10
recursion10
lifting10
folding10
pattern-matching10
dotty10
lenses10
functional-programming10
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Github contributions (5)
wheaties/AutoLifts
Apr 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 200 commits, 55 PRs in 2 years 3 months
liftingmappingfolding
wheaties/Presentations
Sep 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:79 commits, 26 PRs, 54 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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