Owen Evans
Chief Technology Officer at TinyVine
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Evans is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO with 17 years of experience helping early-stage and growth-stage startups scale both their products and people. He blends hands-on engineering—he still enjoys writing code—with strategic oversight, governance, and a clear focus on building trust, transparency, and autonomy in engineering teams. As founder of TinyVine and a long-time mentor and advisor (including Startmate and CTO Academy), he specialises in levelling up people managers and creating cultures of psychological safety and candid feedback. His background spans product-stage CTO roles, senior engineering leadership at companies like Zapier and Xero, and founding two startups, giving him rare perspective across startup and enterprise contexts. Based in Wellington, NZ, he’s particularly effective at translating executive strategy into pragmatic delivery practices that bring software development in-house. A less obvious strength is his emphasis on coaching leadership to be curious about the humans behind the code, not just technical outcomes.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSC Computing, BSC Computing at Newcastle University
French
Github Skills (137)
sdk10
cli10
nodejs10
zapier10
sql9
profiling9
jsinterop9
docker9
logging9
rabbitmq-management8
javascript8
portable8
distributed-tracing8
gcp8
ueberauth8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
buildmaster/oauth-mvc.net
Feb 2009 - Feb 2011
Contributions:33 commits in 1 year 11 months
hoist/api.hoi.io
Nov 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:82 commits, 7 PRs, 44 pushes in 1 year 3 months
apiservinghosthttp-clienthttp-services
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