Owen Evans
Lead Product Engineer StoryMaps at Esri
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Evans is a Lead Product Engineer on Esri’s StoryMaps team with over two decades of experience combining engineering rigor and storytelling through maps. He designs user-centric web and mobile mapping experiences, shapes product requirements from a wide community of authors, and supports adoption through blogging, workshops, and GitHub engagement. Before StoryMaps he led Esri’s DC Innovation and Collaboration Studio, prototyping cloud and spatial-analytics solutions for federal agencies and managing a team of solution engineers. Trained as a chemical engineer at Cornell, he brings a systems-thinking approach honed in water-resources projects to software product design and technical teaching. Owen’s blend of customer-facing solution engineering, curriculum development, and hands-on product testing gives him a rare perspective across sales, engineering, and community enablement.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (47)
journal10
arcgis10
arcgis-online10
esri10
combine10
arcgis-js-api10
zenhub9
python9
publish9
embedded8
map-viewer8
data-management8
rich-text7
accessibility7
rest-api6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/ago-admin-wiki
Jun 2013 - Apr 2014
A collection of code samples, scripts, hacks, tools, and information for ArcGIS Online administrators.
Contributions:16 commits, 2 comments, 2 issues in 9 months
arcgis-online
Esri/storymaps-developer-samples
Jan 2025 - Jun 2026
A collection of developer friendly resources for ArcGIS StoryMaps
Contributions:5 reviews, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
arcgis
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