Owen Expert
Software Engineer at Independent Contractor
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Expert is a seasoned software engineer based in Seattle with 14 years of hands-on experience building scalable APIs, distributed services, and production systems for Fortune 500 clients. An original Amazon team member (1995–1998) and creator of API Chaining(R) and Shared IO State/API abstractions, he is a recognized speaker in the API community and was nominated at API World for his tooling. As an independent consultant he has delivered architecture, tooling, and emergency fixes for companies including AWS, Netflix, PayPal, VMware, and Panera, and his API tools are used at Amazon and Boeing. He combines deep Java/Spring and Groovy/Grails expertise with modern cloud and DevOps practices (Docker, Jenkins, AWS, Prometheus/Grafana) to move projects from prototype to production. He also has experience in high-performance computing and real-time notification systems, and is comfortable leading small teams and mentoring developers. A former Military Intelligence signal analyst and Fine Arts student, he brings an atypical mix of analytical rigor and creative problem-solving to platform and API design.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Fine/Studio Arts, General, Fine/Studio Arts, General at University of Northern IowaCert of Completion, Database Administration, Cert of Completion, Database Administration at University of Washington
English, German
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
swagger10
oas10
specification10
ready-api10
openapi10
pattern10
api10
groovy10
audit10
synchronization10
metaprogramming10
docker-container10
jvm-languages10
spring-boot10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dtolabs/yana2
Mar 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:246 commits in 2 months
agileyet-anothernodejswantedauthority
Beapi-io/beapi_frontend
Jul 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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