Owen Chak
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Chak is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack and backend systems across startups and scale-ups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has progressed from front-end roles to senior backend and founding engineering positions, shipping production services with Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS. Owen has tackled security and auth challenges (OAuth2/OIDC, JWT), observability (DataDog, CloudWatch), and cloud-native deployments, and now focuses on agent-oriented work at OpenAI. Comfortable in both code and infrastructure, he brings startup grit from a founding engineer stint at Caro alongside production experience at Bolt and Credit Sesame. Notably, his background in computer engineering and accessibility-conscious front-end work hints at a developer who values reliable, inclusive systems as much as scalable architecture.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at McMaster University
Github Skills (88)
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grids9
bin-packing9
raspberry9
react9
odm9
bluetooth-low-energy9
nodejs9
mongodb9
pipeline8
bigcommerce8
bluetooth8
runner8
modeling8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tophatmonocle/hivemind-service
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:50 PRs, 102 pushes, 41 branches in 8 days
owenchak/Github-Favourites
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 3 days
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