Owen Craston
Senior Product Manager at Consensys
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolOwen Craston is a Senior Product Manager and former senior engineer with nine years of experience building mobile-first products and developer tooling, currently based in Vancouver. He combines deep hands-on mobile expertise—from React Native, Kotlin and Swift integrations to native module work—with product leadership at Consensys focused on accounts and key management for MetaMask. Prior roles at Shopify span engineering, security, data and performance instrumentation, where he shipped a cross-platform barcode scanner SDK, boosted test coverage, and brought robust analytics to production. As a founder of Agora he explored AI-driven civic engagement, demonstrating an ability to turn technical ideas into consumer-facing products. He’s also an active contributor to the well-known MetaMask mobile repo, shipping platform-specific fixes and security improvements that reflect both frontend finesse and attention to cryptographic product constraints. Pragmatic, product-minded, and technically fluent, Owen excels at bridging engineering and product to ship secure, high-quality mobile experiences.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Computer Science, Computer Science, Honours Computer Science, Computer Science at Carleton University
English
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
android10
metamask9
react9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
web3js8
git7
android-permissions6
eclipse6
python6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
MetaMask/metamask-mobile
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Mobile web browser providing access to websites that use the Ethereum blockchain
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS & Android)
Mobile Developer (iOS & Android)Contributions:1204 reviews, 171 commits, 268 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily contributed to the mobile application's features and functionalities within the MetaMask mobile repository. Their work includes implementing download attachments in the browser for iOS using RNFetchBlob, refactoring UI elements like the URL modal, and addressing Android-specific behaviors like keyboard focus and back button handling. They also integrated login metrics and added support for enabling and disabling the "remember me" functionality. Additionally, the user worked on updating the app config and security checks.
reactbrowserdapps-browserreact-nativeethereum
owencraston/comp3007
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:46 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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