Owen Klaiss
Software Engineering Manager at Samsara
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolOwen Klaiss is a seasoned software engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and leading cloud-native teams, now managing engineering at Samsara from San Francisco. He previously led GoPro’s Cloud Engineering org, owning global media transcoding, streaming, and storage services and driving cross-functional alignment across Product and Design. Owen combines hands-on systems design—serverless, microservices, Kubernetes, and multi-region infrastructure—with applied ML for media discovery using LLMs, computer vision, embeddings, and hybrid search. He has deep experience in identity, OAuth, and media pipelines, and has shipped features from low-level device orchestration to consumer-facing live streaming. As a founder of a media/marketing startup, he brings product sensibility and growth-focused thinking to engineering decisions. Known for turning complex distributed systems into reliable, scalable services, he thrives at the intersection of media, cloud, and AI-enabled search.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Southern Methodist UniversityHigh School, High School at Sacred Heart Preparatory
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Github Skills (11)
api-client9
testing9
api8
javascript8
rest-api8
graphql-client8
insomnia7
api-testing7
automation7
git6
elixir6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oklaiss/GUIglass
May 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
cse5345-fall-2016/assignment2
Aug 2016 - May 2023
Second assignment: basic Elixir
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 9 months
elixir-langelixirsecond
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