Owen Kent
Software Engineer at Pinterest
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Kent is an impact-driven software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud, security, and database infrastructure across startups and tech giants. With an applied physics background and a 3.93 BASc from Queen’s University, he moves fast from prototype to production and thrives on practical problem solving. He’s shipped consumer-facing products as a co-founder—learning product-market fit and user-driven iteration firsthand—and later contributed to large-scale systems at Amazon before joining Pinterest. Comfortable across full-stack and infrastructure domains, he blends hands-on coding with security-minded design and an entrepreneurial instinct for shipping quickly. Based in Canada, he brings both launch-day grit and operational experience optimizing resilient systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics (Computing Option), 3.93 CGPA, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics (Computing Option), 3.93 CGPA at Queen's University
English, French
Github Skills (29)
robotics10
text-editor10
multiplayer9
tree-sitter9
rust-lang9
ros9
code-editor9
ros-driver8
spotify8
driver8
spotify-api8
navigation28
crossword7
robot7
steam7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Elec-498-Autonomous-Building-Guide/nav_stack
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
This is the navigation and control stack for the autonomous building guide
Contributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 months
autopilotmavlinkautonomousnavigation
owen7900/dotfiles
Jul 2022 - Jan 2025
These are my dotfiles
Contributions:3 PRs, 49 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
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