Owen Carter
Building And Tinkering While Learning New Skills In The Arduino, IOT And 3d Printing Arena at At home
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Carter is a seasoned DevOps and Unix systems engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience in Linux, FreeBSD and cloud-based CI/CD toolchains, and eight years focused on modern Agile Developer Operations. Based in Amsterdam, he combines deep sysadmin skills (RHEL, Debian/Ubuntu, scripting in shell and Python, Ansible) with practical maker experience in 3D printing, Arduino and IoT — actively contributing UI and build automation improvements to open-source projects like LaserWeb4 and FluidNC. He has operated Jenkins-driven pipelines for large streaming platforms, automating build, test and release workflows with Groovy, DSL and Git, and has extended that automation into firmware packaging and toolchain installers. Owen’s unique edge is bridging industrial machine control and additive manufacturing hardware with robust DevOps practices, turning hobbyist tinkering into reproducible, maintainable engineering.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Cybernetics, Engineering, BSc, Cybernetics, Engineering at The University of ReadingBTEC Diploma, General Engineering, BTEC Diploma, General Engineering at Southampton College of Technology
English, Dutch
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
webcam10
python10
scripting10
css10
cnc10
webui10
camera10
automation10
script10
build-automation10
html10
sh10
automations10
shell10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
easytarget/esp32-cam-webserver
Nov 2019 - May 2022
Expanded version of the Espressif ESP webcam
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 159 commits, 112 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily contributed to the web interface aspects of the ESP32-CAM project. The user implemented UI changes, including adding a stream viewer, incorporating a "stop stream" button, and improving the display of camera settings, including the xclk setting. They also improved the quality slider functionality and corrected issues within the HTML source. Furthermore, they addressed various UI-related bug fixes, including fixes for slider styling in different browsers and improvements to UI load times.
ai-thinker-boardswebcamcameraesp32-camface-recognition
LaserWeb/LaserWeb4
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Collaborative effort on the next version of LaserWeb / CNCWeb
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 43 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the LaserWeb4 project. Their contributions included fixing issues related to video device enumeration in the application, specifically addressing problems arising from insecure connections. They also implemented changes in the settings component, modifying the presentation of video device controls and adding informative elements when these devices are unavailable. Furthermore, they made minor adjustments to the wording within the UI for improved clarity.
effortlaserwebglgrblcam
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